World of the Banaras Weaver

This book is a fascinating investigation into how communalism plays out in everyday India. Using the metaphor of tana-bana – the warp and the weft of the Banarasi sari – the author reproduces the interwoven life of Hindu-Muslim relations in the Banarasi sari industry.

As the city of Banaras in Uttar Pradesh takes the centre stage as the site of this ethnographic study, the author documents the diss...