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Title: Reviving a Rural Industry: Silk Producers and Officials in India and Bangladesh 1880s to 1980s
Description: Dhaka, University Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, 249 pp. Textual maps & tables. A stain to binding. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction; A View from Above: Concerned Authorities?: The Colonial State & the Silk Industry; Two States, Two Policies; A Silk Region in Decline; A View from Below: The Scars of Partition; Silkworm Rearers Under Two Production Regimes; Households, Gender & Silk; A Missing Link: Let's Have Another Crash Programme; Guardians, Partners & Deceit; Involution or Development? Development as Politics.

Keywords: Bangladesh, Silk Production, Industrial Industry, Economics Economic, Colonial Sociology, Social Economics, Agriculture Economy, Agricultural Policy, Sericulture History, Development

Price: US$ 56.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS009076I