Producing for Global Markets:
Craftspeople of Gujarat and Kachchh
in the 18th and 21st Centuries
Maxine Berg
Global Commodities: The Material Culture of Early Modern
Connections V&A 11-12 October, 2011
Europe's Asian Centuries
Trading Eurasia 1600-1830
Global History and Culture Centre
Department of History - University of Warwick
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/eac/
Research
Themes
• Asian Goods in the Political
Economy of Europe
Bringing global
perspectives and
interdisciplinary
methods to bear on
histories of
industrialization,
consumer society
and material culture
• Asian Goods and European
Consumer Cultures
Investigating the
long distance
trade between
Asia and Europe
in material goods
and culture that
transformed the
early modern
world.
• Asian Goods: Making and
Distributing
• Asian Goods and the
Transmission of Knowledge
• Asian Export Ware and
Industrial Revolution
People
Professor Maxine Berg
Project Director
Dr Helen Clifford
Museum Consultant
Dr Hanna Hodacs
Research Fellow
Ms Meike Fellinger
PhD Student
Dr Chris Nierstrasz
Research Fellow
Mrs Anna Boneham
Project Administrator
Dr Felicia Gottman
Research Fellow
Textile storage areas, Mandvi
Hanifa and Jamila Sumra, Bandhani workers, Mandvi
Neelam Khanna, Bandh counter, Mandvi
Shabana,
Bandhani worker,
Mandvi
Joel Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy. An
Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 (2010)
S.R. Epstein and Maarten Prak, Guilds,
Innovation and the European Economy, 1001800 (2008)
• Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension (1966)
• Richard Sennett, The Craftsman ( 2008)
• Tirthankar Roy, ‘Knowledge and Divergence from the Perspective of Early
Modern India’ Journal of Global History, 3, 2008, pp. 361-87
• Prasannan Parthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not ( 2011)
• Marin Jones, ‘Food Globalization in Pre-History’, World Archaeology, 43
(4), 2011.
• Abigail McGowan, Crafting the Nation in
Colonial India (2009)
• Douglas Haynes, Small Town Capitalism in
Western India (2012)
Aina Mahal Palace, Bhuj
Aina Mahal Palace, Bhuj
Ismail Khatri interviewed by Chhaya Goswami
Interview of Mustaq, brass knife handle maker by Mohmedhusain Khatri, Mota Reha
Printing blocks, Dhamadka
Local inhabitant
Shamjibhai Visram Siju, weaver Bhujodi
Ramji weaver, Bhujodi
Mustaq, brass knife handle maker, Mota Reha
Shabana tying and Neelam Khanna, bandh counter in Neelam Khanna’s house, Mandvi
Imtiaz Arab Khatri, block printer, Ajrakhpur
Haddu Babubhai, washer, Ajrakhpur
Abdul Rashid, wooden knife handle maker, Mota Reha
Batik work Mundra, Shakeel Ahmed Mohammed Qasim Khatri
Dye worker, Dhamadka
Mochi Cotton, Silk Embroidery of
Gujarat , c. 1700, V&A IS: 15-1953
Painted and Dyed Cotton Hanging,
Coromandel Coast for the Western
Market, late 17th or early 18th C.,
V&A IS156-153.
Osman Abdulla Bhatti, aged 85, cutler for over 60 years in Mota Reha
Tours for Scientific and Economic
Research made in Guzerat, Kattiawar
and the Conkuns in 1787-88 by Dr. Hove
(Bombay, 1855)
Other Accounts:
Alexander Walker (1764-1831)
James McMurdo
Alexander Forbes