The Political Economy of Craft Production : Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350–1650

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In this study, through both archaeological and historical evidence, Carla Sinopoli explores the significance of craft production in the political economy of the fourteenth-through seventeenth-century South Indian Vijayanagara empire. She examines a diverse range of crafts from poetry to pottery, employing evidence from her twenty years of fieldwork.