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Volume : II, Issue : IX, October - 2012 An Overview Of Conchshell Industry Of Bishnupur, Bankura District –after Sumatra Tsunami (2004) Riya Banerjee DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Handicrafts are the art of creating products using raw and indigenous
materials. Bengal is well known all over the world for its expertise in arts and craft. It's
skill in architectural splendours to its excellent works on wood work, terracotta, painting
textiles, crafts of conch shell etc. Conch is the common name that is applied to a number
of different medium to large-sized sea snails or their shells. The term generally applies to
large sea snails that have a high spire and a siphoned canal (come to a point at both ends
of shell).The conch shell curving is the traditional art of Bishnupur. Traditional artisans
mostly belongs to Sankha Banik Caste partake in conch shell curving at sankhari Bazaar
(Bishnupur, Malleswar, Kadakuli).This paper attempt to explore the problems and
prospects of conch shell industry recent times in the Bishnupur of Bankura District. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Riya Banerjee, (2012). An Overview Of Conchshell Industry Of Bishnupur, Bankura District –after Sumatra Tsunami (2004). Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. IX, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1419.pdf References : - Dibyendu S.Maiti (June, 2005): Organisational morphologies of rural industries in liberalised India: a study of West Bengal.
- Biswas, P. K. (2001), 'Surplus Yield and Production Structure: The Case Of Small-Scale Rural Industries in West Bengal', the Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.28, No.2, 199-145.
- District Census Handbook, Bankura, 1961, 1981, 1991 and 2001.
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