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Amanda Lanzillo

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
· Mar 07, 2024 · 01:30 pm
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
· Jul 02, 2023 · 11:30 am