Author: Sinopoli, Carla M.
Title: The Political Economy of Craft Production : Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2003). orig.boards. 25x18cm, xiv,354 pp. Textual map & photo illus.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Specialized craft production: archaeological approaches; The South Asian state; Vijayanagara: the historical setting; Vijayanagara: sources of evidence; Craft products and craft producers; Artisans and institutions artisans and each other; Crafting empire: conclusion. ["Carla Sinopoli examines a diverse range of crafts to explore the role and significance of craft production in the political economy of the fourteenth through seventeenth-century South Indian Vijayanagara empire. Ranging from poetry to pottery, Sinopoli utilizes evidence from twenty years of fieldwork at the Vijayanagara capital, one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world in its time. This book is a broad-ranging study of craft production in South Asia, as well as other early state empires." - Publisher's description]

Keywords: Indian Economic History, Craft Production, Medieval India, Early Modern, South Asia, Hampi Industries, Artisans, Vijayanagar Empire, Political Economy