Rural Crafts & Cottage Industries

The economics of village artisans - weavers, potters, blacksmiths, carpenters; how craft knowledge was preserved and transmitted; the destruction of Indian handicrafts under colonialism; revival of khadi and handloom; GI tags and artisan economics in 2025

Lessons in this chapter

• Grama-Shilpi: Village Artisan Economics — Weavers, Potters, Smiths
• Tantuvaya: The Economics of Weavers — Apprenticeship and Family Training
• Kumbhakara: Potters and Ceramic Traditions — Death of Indian Handicrafts
• Loha-Kara: Blacksmiths and Metal Workers — Swadeshi Economics
• Shilpa-Gyan: Preserving and Transmitting Craft Knowledge — Protecting Traditional Crafts
• GI Tags and Kala-Punaruddhar: Artisan Revival — E-commerce Meets Traditional Craft
• Relevance in 2026 and Beyond — Village Crafts in an Age of AI and Automation

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