The Indian CraftsmanDescription: The author has treated his subject from three points of view; the village, the town and the palace or temple, i.e. where the craftsman lived, worked and had their patrons. He has also minutely examined how the caste system, religion and the guild set up standards of quality and enforced their strict adherence. He has devoted an entire chapter to throw light on the system of education and training that ensure and regulated the right number of craftsmen for every craft at a particular period so that at no period there was neither a surplus nor a deficit of craftsmen. Ten appendices add further information from different angels. This book is indeed a welcome resurection at this particular time; for the traditional craftsmen are disappearing. The philosophy that sustained them through vicissitudes seems no longer valid. All those who have a love for Indian crafts and who want to either practise or preserve them will find this an excellent book. |
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... lives to come : " Builders that build houses thus , after their death , will be re - born in a royal family ; painters ... live in great dis- tress ; when born as a man , it will be as a needy builder ; the painter's eyes will squint ...
... lives to come : " Builders that build houses thus , after their death , will be re - born in a royal family ; painters ... live in great dis- tress ; when born as a man , it will be as a needy builder ; the painter's eyes will squint ...
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... lives only to make brass trays and other pretty toys for passing tourists whose lives and man- ners he does not understand , and for whom , as he well knows by experience , any bungling is good enough , since they know nought of good or ...
... lives only to make brass trays and other pretty toys for passing tourists whose lives and man- ners he does not understand , and for whom , as he well knows by experience , any bungling is good enough , since they know nought of good or ...
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... live with and be fed and clothed by his mas- ter and teacher , and when at last his education is complete , be given the last secrets of the art and perhaps some heirloom or gift of a design drawn by a famous painter generations back ...
... live with and be fed and clothed by his mas- ter and teacher , and when at last his education is complete , be given the last secrets of the art and perhaps some heirloom or gift of a design drawn by a famous painter generations back ...
Contents
THE VILLAGE CRAFTSMAN | 1 |
THE CRAFT GUILDS OF THE GREAT CITIES | 5 |
THE FEUDAL CRAFTSMAN IN INDIA AND CEYLON | 14 |
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The Indian Craftsman: With a Short Biography and Tributes Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy No preview available - 2018 |
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Ahmedabad Ananda ancient art and craft artisans artist Arts of India beautiful blacksmith Brahmans Buddha Buddhist builders building carpenter caste century ceremony Ceylon cloth colour competition Coomaraswamy Craft Guilds craftsmanship craftsmen cultivated culture decorated departmental Disava district duties E.B. Havell European festival five give gold goldsmiths granted handicraft hereditary Hindu honour important Indian Art Indian craftsman Industrial Arts inscription interesting Jataka jewellery kammalar Kandy Kandyan king's kiriya of land Kosala Kottal-badde labour Lafcadio Hearn lamp living Mahavamsa manors Maratha master mediaeval merchant Mitrananda modern one's organisation ornament painter painting palace Pataliputra patron payment person piece plaster potters practice present pupil Raja Ramayana received regulation relation religious royal armoury Sanskrit servants share Sinhala Sinhalese Sir George Birdwood skill Smith social society Sopara Sultan supply tamarind seed temple tenant things tion trade guilds traditional vihara village community wages washerman workshop