India perhaps the only country which has maximum contribution in textile to the world right from the era of Indus valley civilisation till today. Even today Indias handlooms and spinning wheel contributes largest variation of designs. India gives the finest textile like muslim brightest textile like silk cheapest textile like jute and strongest textile like ramie. It continued to flourish inspite of onslaughlat of British Government legally by enacting the notorious Calico Act besides physical torture. The book gives various aspects of Indians traditional textile which no other country can match in respect of diversity. There are detailed discussion of raw materials evolution of technology including appropriate technology and various types of designs. Sketches and photographs are also given to give detailed idea and shall be helpful for those who would like to implement various socio economic programme on textiles. Perhaps are of the few complete book on Indian textile and shall be helpful for programme executives of khadi, handloom and rural development. It shall also be helpful for marketing executives who deal with textiles. Besides discussing in general the textile art of tribal art of tribal states of North Eastern India are discussed separately. The story of rivival of Dhaka muslin and Baluchary are discussed in separate chapters. The book will make Indians proud of their heritage.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR G K Ghosh
He is graduated in Chemical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Rourkella. After graduation served number of organizations like Hindustan Lever Ltd., I.B.P Co. Ltd., Konark Detergents and Soaps Ltd., and finally joined Khadi & Village Industries Commission as director in the year 1982 retiring as Joint Chief Executive Officer in the year 2008. after retirement he was made member and chairman respectively of two important committees of Ministry of Science & Technology. He is also working with two rural based groups to develop environment friendly rural industrialization. He has presented more than 40 papers in Anthropology in various sessions of Indian Science Congress. More than 80 articles in various subjects written in English, Hindi, Bengali and Oriya were published in various journals and news papers of repute. He had authored more than 50 books out of which 48 were published. The subjects ranged from disaster Management, Anthropology, Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Ayurveda etc. he is well traveled all Indian States and most of the European countries. He was trained in Industtrial Cluster from International labor Organisation Training center at Turin, Italy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shukla Ghosh
Shukla Ghosh, a graduate from University of Calcutta and graduated in light classical music from Prayag Sangeet Samaj, Allahabad. Her papers were accepted in section of Anthropology and Archeology in annual sessions of Indian Science Congress Association. At least two of her papers were on traditional textile of India. She has intimate knowledge on various aspects of Indian textile like embroidery, cross stitch, batik and so on. Served Yuba Bani Section of All India Radio for a short span and was connected with various cultural organizations.
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