[INDOLOGY] brick-making communities

[Dominik Wujastyk]

thanks, I'll look into Chattopadhyaya.  I've actually got the book(s) at
home.

--
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



On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 03:19, Lubomír Ondračka <ondracka at ff.cuni.cz> wrote:

> To O. P. Jaggi's multi-volume work (mainly on medicine) we can add some
> books by Debiprasad Chattopadhyay. True, he was concerned more with science
> (and philosophy of science) than technology, but e.g. in his book History
> of Science and Technology in Ancient India (KLM 1986) there are several
> chapters devoted to bricks and brick-making.
>
> Best,
> Lubomir
>
>
>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 19:15:21 -0700
> Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> > It's very tempting to look at today's brickmaking castes and make the
> leap
> > to Indus technology.  I've done it myself.  But then one must remind
> > oneself of the vast depth of time we're considering.  It seems impossible
> > that this craft could really be genetically connected with practices 4500
> > years ago.
> >
> > That's why I'm asking about history, really, to see how far back the
> > current practices are documentable.
> >
> > As for the Needham Project, O. P. Jaggi had a go at it.  Not that good,
> but
> > sometimes one is surprised.
> >
> > Best,
> > Dominik
> >
> > --
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 10:07, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Dominik,
> > >
> > > I recall reading somewhere that the sizes of bricks of the Indus
> > > civilization seem to have been standardized, in which case this is a
> very
> > > ancient industry in SA. In Bihar, it seems, the bricks of Nalanda and
> other
> > > viharas have been mined for centuries, and the use of brick in the
> > > Kathmandu valley extends to Licchavi times. So there must be some
> > > literature about this
> > >
> > > It's time to do for SA what Needham sought to do for China .....
> > >
> > > Best, Matthew
> > >
> > > Matthew T. Kapstein
> > > EPHE, Paris
> > > The University of Chicago
> > >
> > > ------------------------------
> > > *From:* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
> > > Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> > > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 6, 2018 5:53:04 PM
> > > *To:* Indology
> > > *Subject:* [INDOLOGY] brick-making communities
> > >
> > > 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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