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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

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.

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Riya Banerjee, (2012). An Overview Of Conchshell Industry Of Bishnupur, Bankura District –after Sumatra Tsunami (2004). Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. IX, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1419.pdf

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  3. District Census Handbook, Bankura, 1961, 1981, 1991 and 2001.

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