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Amanda Lanzillo
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Twentieth-century texts show the relationship between Muslim tailors, their trade and their faith
An excerpt from ‘Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India,’ by Amanda Lanzillo.
Amanda Lanzillo
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Worlds apart: How a writer from Lahore felt when he rode the London underground in 1900
Colonialism funded the empire’s metropolises and kept the subcontinent’s cities impoverished. These contrasts were not lost on Munshi Mahbub Alam.
Amanda Lanzillo