Working in the Mill No More

by Jan Breman and Parthiv Shah

Mixing narrative and images, this book provides a stark account of the collapse of the textile industry in Ahmedabad. Over a four-year period, the author, accompanied by photographer Parthiv Shah, found out what had happened to their previous informants. Hindus and Muslims alike remembered a shared past of working in the same mills and living in the same neighborhoods. Then, following the 2002 riots, the community suffered its final fractures of religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9053566422
• ISBN13: 9789053566428
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 13.8" x 8.3"