Description
About the Book
Kashmir is known for its arts and crafts. But there is no single book so far which deals overall and totally with both known and lesser-known crafts of Jammu & Kashmir State. This book portrays a comprehensive study providing wealth of information and visual documentation on the beautiful part of India comprising Jammu, Kashmir valley and Ladakh. A state with rich craft and cultural heritage deserves to be better known in its crafts context of people and culture.
As a close and living relationship ties land to people and people to craft and culture, the book opens with brief description of this relationship.
Since traditional skills co-exist and change in the course of changing conditions, the book covers some of the more important as well as lesser known crafts in their historical background, present and potential for future.
Development being a constant process, the book also reviews the actual craft situation, its scope, design, craft training, the domestic marketing and exports of crafts, concluding on the most important factor- the craftsmen and their welfare.
The book is invaluable in many ways. Over 100 pages of excellent photographs and typical design motifs capture vitality of Jammu & Kashmir crafts. General readers, planners and administrators as well as traders and exporters will find highly useful the details the book provides with the personal touch of author’s rich experience over the years.
About the Author
D.N. Saraf (born April, 1918) hails from Jammu and Kashmir. He did his M.A. in Economics and took a special course in Marketing at the Harvard Business School, U.S.A. He has been associated with such prestigious bodies as the India Crafts Council, the American Marketing Association and the British Institute of Management.
Mr. Saraf started his professional career with the development of crafts i
