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In ancient India, crafts and art were one—both synonymous, both an integral part of home, worship and everyday life, not segregated into gallery displays or marketplace commerce. – LAILA TYABJI India’s crafts are as diverse as its populace. But just as the idea of India, we believe that craft has a diverse universe of opinions on what constitutes craft Products that are produced by artisans, either completely by hand or with the help of hand-tools or even mechanical means, as long as the direct manual contribution of the artisan remains the most substantial component of the finished product… The special nature of artisanal products derives from their distinctive features, which can be utilitarian, aesthetic, artistic, creative, culturally attached, decorative, functional, traditional, religiously and socially symbolic and significant. The proposed definition of handicrafts according to EPCH – -UNESCO “Item or product produced through skills that are manual, with or wit...