Look at Potential, not the Product Traditional Creative Industry | An Abstract which was written for a proposed paper. The paper and the supporting case studies of work done in the ‘Indian handicraft sector’ (the term which will be re interpreted later by the author) envisions a way forward for the sector’s future sustenance. To begin with it rewinds briefly to the pre and post Gandhian thought of an industrial containment of Indian maker of things (professional skill/wrutti) who supported the needs of customers indigenously, locally and traditionally. In the introduction it describes the present scenario of Govt. and corporate sector intervention to scale up the handicraft business through schemes, etc and its affects at a micro and macro level. Hand-Craft in India in the past has been an industry which was indigenous and catered to localized needs. Today by calling it craft it is being placed in a glorified situation, thereby isolating it and non inclusive in the mai...
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