[INDOLOGY] brick-making communities

[Lubomír Ondračka]

Dear Dominik,

for the 19th century, some information about the brick-making communities is scattered in various Statistical Accounts, District Gazetteers and similar publications, but I am not aware of any synthetic study (at least not for Bengal). Normally, Watt's Dictionary of the economic products of India tends to be useful, but not in this case.

I have found only one study among my files:

FOGELIN, Lars (2006) Brickmaking in Malapannagudi: Ethnoarchaeological Research and Archaeological Implications, 
in: John M. Fritz, Robert P. Brubaker and Teresa P. Raczek (eds.), Vijayanagara: Archaelogogical Exploration, 1990–2000, New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 577–586.

Best,
Lubomir



On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 09:53:04 -0700
Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Travelling in India, especially by train, one occasionally sees large
> mounds of bricks, or maybe they are kilns or sun-drying piles.  There are
> workers at these places, making bricks.  Is there a scholarly *historical*
> literature about these communities and the practice of brick-making in
> earlier Indian history?
> 
> With thanks,
> Dominik
> 
> e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaNIydpOYYk
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kobW9nj-wQ
> 
> 
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> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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> Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
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