Study with reference to Orissa, India.

This book presents a comprehensive history of handloom weaving industry in India to challenge and revise the view that competition from machine-produced textiles destroyed the country’s handicrafts as claimed by historians until recently. It shows that skill-intensive handmade textiles survived the competition on a large scale, and that handmade goods and high-quality manual labour played a positive role in the making of modern India. Rich in archival material, The Crafts and Capitalism explores themes such as the historiography of craft technologies; statistical work on nineteenth-century cotton cloth production trends; narratives of merchants, the social leaders, the factory-owners; tools and techniques; and, shift from handloom to power loom. The book argues that changes in the handloom industry were central to the consolidation of new forms of capitalism in India. An important intervention in Indian economic history, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of Indian history, economic history, colonial history, modern history, political history, labour history and political economy. It will also interest nongovernmental organizations, textile historians, and design specialists.

Contents: Introduction and Methodology, Position and Development of Handloom Industry During Five-Year Plans, Organisational Pattern and Socio-Economic Profile of the Handloom Weavers, Employment Generation and Income Generation of Handloom Weavers, Capacity Utilisation and Indebtedness of the Handloom Weavers, Problems and Prospects of the Handloom Industry.

"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 11 SEPTEMBER, 1977 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 64 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XLII. No. 37 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 22-61 ARTICLE: 1.Tasks Before A.I.R. 2. Genetic Counselling 3. Mental Tension and Its Prevention 4. Variable Energy Cyclotron at Calcutta 5. Employment Strategy 6. How to Discipline the Multinationals 7. Fillip to Handloom Industry 8. Rural Health Plan 9. Science And Mysticism 10. Prome Monitoring System 11. Foreign Exchange : Problem of Plenty 12. A Nation's Memory : The National Archives AUTHOR: 1. Prime Minister Morarji Desai 2. Dr. M. Sirisi 3. Dr. L. P. Varma 4. C. Ambashankaran 5. L. K. Mutatkar 6. R. Venkatachary 7. D. Subbaram 8. Dr. V. A. Pai Panandiker 9. Dr. B. V. Subbarayappa 10. Chetan Chadha 11. S. Kumar Dev 12. Dr. S. N. Prasad KEYWORDS : 1.Radio,Major Tasks,A.I.R.,Government 2.Diseases,Medicine,Genetic Diseases,Chromosome 3.Mental Tension,Life,Programme,Work 4.Energy,Engineers,Scientists,Radio 5.Employment,Economy,Union Budget,Government 6.United Nations,Subversive Role,Investment,India 7.Handloom Industry,Production,Cloth,Export 8.Janata Government,Health Minister,Community,Prime Minister Document ID : APE-1977 (J-O) Vol-I-11 Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.

Dr.Malik has been actively associated with various academic bodies in the discipline of Public Administration. Dr. Malik has specialized in Rural Development and Personnel Administration.