Gift of Conquerors
Hand Papermaking in India
Alexandra Soteriou
Comprehensive and detailed, this book traces the nearly thousand-year history of hand papermaking in India from the ancient sites in Gilgit and the Himalayas, through the heartland of Mathura, Agra and Daulatabad to the Western sites in Rajasthan and Gujarat, to Pondicherry on the Bay of Bengal. Illustrated with numerous colour photographs, the story is revealed through India's visual art: books, miniatures, drawings, scrolls, talismans, papier mache and folk papers. Interwoven with religion, political conquest and repression, the discovery of papermaking ruins, and formulas, methods, memories and migration routes recalled by kagzi, traditional papermaking families, Gift of Conquerors, creates a rich historic picture not seen before.

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