Kārkhāna - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Kārkhāna - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Roy, Tirthankar

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062528
Doc. NO	:	ALei2925
Main Entry	:	Roy, Tirthankar
Title & Author	:	Kārkhāna - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Roy, Tirthankar
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,638 words)
Abstract	:	The word kārkhāna , common to many Indian languages, is of Persian origin. In its original Indianised meaning, kārkhāna is “a place where business is done” (Yule and Burnell, 125). More often, it is a workshop or a warehouse. Not all workshops would qualify to be called kārkhāna s. The word ordinarily meant a large-scale craft-production workshop employing wage labour. In that respect, it was the pre-modern factory, part of a large-scale urban industrial organisation distinct from the more usual household production systems. This connotation of the
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2925.pdf