Networks, Labour and Migration Among Indian Muslim Artisans

Abstract

List of figures vii List of tables ix Acknowledgements x 1. Marginalisation, connectedness and Indian Muslim artisans: an introduction 1 2. A brief history of Indian Muslim artisans 22 3. The Indian craft supply chain: money, commodities and intimacy 49 4. Muslim women and craft production in India: gender, labour and space 78 5. Apprenticeship and labour amongst Indian Muslim artisans 6. Neoliberalism and Islamic reform among Indian Muslim artisans: affect and self-making 7. Friendship, urban space, labour and craftwork in India 8. Internal migration in India: imaginaries, subjectivities and precarity 9. Labour migration between India and the Gulf: regimes, imaginaries and continuities vi CONTENTS 10. Marginalisation and connectedness: a conclusion Glossary of Hindi, Urdu and Arabic terms