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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> India is still a land of craftsmen of hand and muscle barrier of a new toll bridge is raised by a man pulling a rope power. The against the counterbalance of a sack of stones; women on the pavements of Calcutta straighten rusty bent nails with a small hammer; workmen in Delhi roofing a new luxury hotel stand on bamboo struts passing tiles up a human ladder; in small towns when school is out children dressed in British-style uniforms cram into bicycle rickshaws to be pedalled home; at stations and roadside stalls the traveller is served tea not in a plastic cup but in a small handmade earthenware mug to be thrown away. India may have a nuclear programme but mechanisation has made little impact on everyday tasks. Craft traditions have likewise remained unchanged. In small workshops men beat iron to make knives cut wood for furniture and leather for shoes mould molten brass in small furnaces and weave silks cottons and carpets on handlooms. These manual skills of India have been passed down from generation to generation over thousands of years.