Pious labour: Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India

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• Amanda Lanzillo (Brunel University London)
• Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:30-17:00
• Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

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Artisan industrial workers in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century north India faced radical industrial and technological shifts in their trades. To negotiate these changes, many Muslim artisans in trades such as blacksmithing, carpentry, and tailoring asserted distinctive Islamic traditions for their work and technologies of production. In this talk, I argue that Muslim artisans made claims on pious technical knowledge in a context where industrial authority was increasingly associated with the colonial state and Indian middle classes. I likewise explore the archive of Muslim artisans’ pious technical knowledge, analysing the emergence of new intersections of embodied and textual knowledge of craft within the Indian print economy.

This talk is part of the Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science series.

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