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Ghulam Yahya wrote this book in 19th century North India at the request of a British magistrate to document trades and crafts of the region. It describes 11 trades such as glassmaking, basket weaving, and goldsmithing through text and drawings of tools. The manuscript was in danger of being lost but was retrieved and translated by Meher Afshan Farooqi, bringing this example of early Indian ethnography on traditional industries to light. It provides useful historical information for scholars of colonial Indi

Author

Najaf Haider

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