The traditional industrial activity is an activity which produces marketable products, using locally available raw material, human skills and indigenous technology. The traditional industries of India include handloom, handicrafts, coir, cashew, beedi, tiles and bricks and other household industrial activities carried out in the rural parts of the country. Indian economy has been endowed with eco-friendly products of traditional industrial sectors which has a glorious past and world-wide reputation. This sector of the economy has been generating employment opportunities in the rural areas and also earning foreign exchange through large-scale exports. In the liberalised economy of India, there are fears that the traditional industries may wipe off owing to the presence and pressures of large industrial enterprises, both domestic and foreign. It, thus, becomes the social obligation of the Government and the society as a whole to protect this sector and preserve the traditional skills of the artisans and the workers. Artisan guilds, cooperatives, consortiums, Self-Help Groups and association of enterprises should contribute in this endeavour. The present work is an attempt to assess the potential of selected traditional industrial activities such as handloom, coir, cashew, tiles and bricks, handicrafts, spices and marine products. The book is designed to contribute to the existing body of literature on the impact of economic reforms on the Indian economy. This work, which is fairly replete with inspiring and enlightening matter, will commend itself to all categories of readers, particularly academicians, researchers and students of economics, commerce and business management.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M. Sarngadharan
Dr. Sarngadharan secured his M.Com. degree with first class first rank from the University of Kerala (1975) and Ph.D. from the University of Calicut (1986). He has been teaching at the Post-graduate level for the past 30 years and carrying out research activities for the last 25 years. He has been a Professor since 1993 and Head of the Department of Commerce at the University of Kerala since 1994. He has served as Administrator of the SNDS Trust, Sivagiri, with the powers of the full Board, taken over by the Government of Kerala for Management for two years (1997-99). He has authored 12 books and 367 articles. He has also served as Dean, Faculty of Commerce and as Member, Senate, University of Kerala. Presently, he is a Member of the Senate, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi; Member, Academic Council and Chairman, P.G. Board of Studies in Commerce, University of Kerala; and Member, Curriculum Committee, VHSC, Government of Kerala, under the Chairmanship of State Minister for Education. He has participated in several International Conferences and visited Spain, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Nepal. He is the Chief Editor of Journal of Business Studies, published from Trivandrum.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S. Rajitha Kumar
Dr. S. Rajitha Kumar is lecturer in the school of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and technology, Kochi, Kerala. He secured his M.Com., M.Phil., and Ph.D. Degrees from the university of kerala. he is an approved research guide in the faculty of Social science of Cochin university of science and technology. He has served as lecturer in the Institute of Cooperative management, Dehradun and regional Institute of Cooperative management, Bangalore. He has teaching experience of more than 8 years at the post-graduate level. He has participated and presented papers at the national and international conferences and seminars. He has published 12 research papers in leading journals.
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