The Warrior Merchants. Textiles, Trade, and Territory in South India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2860795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Adams (0000-0002-2727-615X), John H Adams (0000-0003-3707-7979, University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author), Mattison Mines |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 518 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2758355 |
| OpenAlex | W2064623096 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
The standard image of Indian society emphasizes its largely agrarian economy and parochial outlook, yet this image ignores the major economic and political role of commerce and artisan production. This book presents a study of one of the most important artisan-merchant communities, the weavers, who form the second largest sector of the south Indian economy. It thus offers an important corrective to the unbalanced picture that we have of Indian social organisation from those accounts which have focused almost exclusively on agrarian society. Professor Mines traces the role of the weaver-merchants in the organization, of south Indian states and society from the medieval period to the present, and shows that at times in their history they rivalled the status and power of the agriculturalists. He also demonstrates that far from being provincial, the weavers have for centuries maintained supralocal organisations to administer their affairs and represent their interests. As the political economy has changed, so they have modified their organisations and created new ones better to fit changing conditions and interests
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Inquest on Dravidian Kinship
Patronage as Politics in South Asia
Constructing the Colonial Encounter
Merchant Charity and Public Identity Formation in Colonial India
Individuality and Achievement in South Indian Social History
Patronage and 'community
The Organization of Craft Production at Vijayanagara, South India
Pilgrimage as a Religious Process
The Political Economy of Craft Production
Women in changing South Asia
The Myths of Origin of the Indian Untouchables
Temple Urbanism in Medieval South India
Revising caste
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,49 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2020 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |