Download or read book Crafting the Nation in Colonial India written by A. McGowan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of archival evidence, Abigail McGowan argues that crafts seized the political imagination in western India because they provided a means of debating the present and future of the country.