Creative Vocabularies of Work and Value in South Asia: A Foreword; Living, Adapting, and Creating: Craftspeople and Performers in South Asia: A Foreword; Introduction Living, Adapting, and Creating: Craftspeople and Performers in South Asia; Chapter
1. Musical Unfreedom and the Drummers’ Dilemma: Cultural Labour and the Value of Music in Indian Caste Society; Chapter
2. U?aippu: Performance as Labour in a Tamil Theatre Tradition; Chapter
3. Narratives of Craft and Power in Sindh, Pakistan; Chapter
4. Artistic Labour at Stake: The Case of South Indian Courtesans’ Changing Patterns of Professionalism in Colonial and Post-Colonial India; Chapter
5. Women, Crafts and Landscapes; Acknowledging Cultural Rights for Sustainable Development; Chapter
6. The Performance of Payment: Differentiating Devotional, Erotic and Classical Performing Arts in India; Chapter
7. Materializing Insurgency: Walnut-Wood Carving and the Material Culture of Conflict; Chapter
8. The Tawa’if in Colonial India: Changing Livelihoods and Emerging Technologies (1790s - 1920s); Chapter
9. Remaking Labouring Lives through Crisis: Artisan Weaponsmiths in Colonial North India; Chapter
10. Court Music Outside the Court: Defining the ‘Professional’ Musician in Nineteenth-Century Bengal; Chapter
11. The Hand in the Song: Understanding Performative Labour, Gender, and Livelihood in the Arts of Chitrakar Women of West Bengal; Chapter
12. Kashmir’s Crafts Women: Tacit, Embodied Knowledge and its value in Post Conflict Reconstruction; Chapter
13. Kanchipuram as Brand Value: Weaving, Marketing Tradition in South India; Chapter
14. Drumming, Value, and Patronage in a Himalayan Village Economy; Chapter
15. Globalities and Temporalities of Artisanship: Lessons from an Indian Wood Art Industry; Chapter
16. The Gramophone, The Concert Stage and the Hindustani Musician as Commodity-Fetish; Chapter
17. The Business of Kollywood Dance in Chennai, India; Chapter
18. Surviving Revivals: Or Why the Work of Resuscitating Indian Crafts is Never Done; Index