Perspectives on Work, Home, and Identity From Artisans in Telangana
Providing an ethnographic account of the everyday life of a household of artisans in the Telangana state of southern India, Chandan Bose engages with craft practice beyond the material (in this case, the region's characteristic murals, narrative cloth scr
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Perspectives on Work, Home, and Identity From Artisans in Telangana
Ravinder Sharma (Guruji) and Danalakota Vaikuntam Nakash discussing an old naqqashi painting at Kala Ashram, Adilabad
Chandan Bose
Perspectives on Work, Home, and Identity From Artisans in Telangana Conversations Around Craft
Chandan Bose Department of Liberal Arts Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Acknowledgements
This book is the story of the resilience of potential, commitment and will in the face of any kind of change and adversity. And this is a story which was told to me by the Danalakota household of Cheriyal, Telangana, who not only let me into their homes and their lives, but also guided me through experiences that have helped me evolve as a scholar and as a person. This ethnography is but only an attempt at bringing together the different terrains which conversations with this family took me through. To each and every member of the household—Vanaja, Padma, Vaikuntam, Nageshwar, Vinay, Rakesh, and Ganesh and Malaysham—I will always be indebted for sharing their trust, their time, and most importantly, their knowledge. To Ravinder Sharma a.k.a. Guruji of Adilabad, I owe the intellectual tools that enabled me to aspire to a more spirited engagement with my research. Hours and hours were spent with Guruji who would take me from discourses on modernity and development, to the hand gestures which a potter apes to
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