[INDOLOGY] brick-making communities

[Madhav Deshpande]

Hi Dominik,

     In Pune, there was a large colony of brick makers with lots of kilns
and piles of bricks in various stages of preparation at the foot of the
Parvati hill.  At some relatively recent time [probably two/three decades
ago], because of the growth of the residential areas, that entire colony
was moved somewhere else, and that land became occupied by new residential
buildings.  There must be extensive records in the administrative
departments of Pune City Corporation [पुणे महानगरपालिका].  I am sure the
brick-making business has not gone away, only that it was moved to a new
location.  Our Pune friends like Saroja Bhate and Shrikant Bahulkar may be
able to provide more current information.

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus
Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan
[Residence: Campbell, California]


On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 5:05 PM patrick mccartney via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> This ethnography of child labor and brick making might interest you
> https://etd.ohiolink.edu/pg_10?0::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:64326
>
> On Wed., 7 Nov. 2018, 1:54 am 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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
>> ,
>>
>> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
>> ,
>>
>> Department of History and Classics
>> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
>> ,
>> University of Alberta, Canada
>> .
>>
>> South Asia at the U of A:
>>
>> sas.ualberta.ca
>>
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