Banita Behera IGRMS,Bhopal While looking at craft an obvious question arises out of curiosity which sometime remains unanswered. Question possibly may be how this thing came in-to existence? How this thing was made and who made it? The indigenous tribal people of India along with their culturally rooted aesthetic principles and associated moral and religious values emphasize their craft as a unique one. As an innate and inseparable part of culture and society, the art and craft produced is styled in culturally patterned ways. There are many traditional art and crafts of tribal people, which are now on the verge of extinction. It is need of the hour to preserve and revive their culture which is gradually decoying. A Whole hearted effort is to be made by adopting various measures and technologies to preserve and revive it or else this great cultural tradition will be buried under the sandy-shore of time. The income generating activities should not cause the tribals to mi...
Mirrors the Traditional Past