Emerald City Vinodh Venkatesh

Emerald City Vinodh VenkateshA fascinating study of the gemstone industry of Jaipur with special emphasis on its ownership class. Lawrence A. Babb's Emerald City provides an intriguing portrait of the gemstone cutting industry of the North Indian city of Jaipur. It focuses on the ownership class consisting mainly of Jains and members of northern India's traditional trading communities. Based on oral historical investigations of family firms, along with ethnographic observations

In addition to providing a catalogue of the reliefs arranged according to their subjects

the attempts to implement this vision

and complex emotions

Turned away from a Fulham workhouse

as well as how those attitudes influenced present-day deathway practices

sophisticated understanding of Confucius as a philosopher

competes for domination

Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth

Laura and Jim represent a silent underground of practitioners who have lost the right to legislate their own profession

Drawing from Wittgenstein

employees and contractors

This is the first book-length study in English on Chabrol since 1970