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All India Handicrafts Board Abbreviation AIHB Formation 1952 Founder
Pupul Jayakar Dissolved 2020
The All India Handicrafts Board (AIHB ), was an organisation in India established in 1952, which aimed to advise the
Ministry of Textiles on development programmes for
handicrafts . Its early key figures included
Pupul Jayakar ,
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay ,
Lakshmi Chand Jain and
Fori Nehru . It was abolished by the Government of India in 2020 during the
COVID-19 pandemic .
Origins
In 1950
Pupul Jayakar was invited by
Jawaharlal Nehru to study the handloom sector of the economy.
[1] The AIHB was established in 1952.
[2]
[3]
[4] Its first chair was
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay .
[5] Other early key figures included
Lakshmi Chand Jain ,
Kitty Shiva Rao and
Fori Nehru .
[2]
[6]
Purpose
The AIHB aimed to advise the
Ministry of Textiles on development programmes for handicrafts, and was an umbrella organisation, covering marketing venues across India, including
Central Cottage Industries Emporium .
[7]
Disestablishment
The AIHB was abolished by the Government of India in 2020, during the
COVID-19 pandemic .
[8]
References
^ Davis, Richard H. (2008).
"3. From the wedding chamber to the museum: relocating the ritual arts or Madhubani" . In Mrazek, Jan; Pitelka, Morgan (eds.). What's the Use of Art?: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. pp. 84–85.
ISBN
978-0-8248-3063-2 .
^
a
b Salvi, Gouri (1999).
Development Retold: Voices from the Field . Concept Publishing Company. pp. 97–107.
ISBN
978-81-7022-798-4 .
^ Gupta, Anu; Mehta, Shalina (1 January 2016).
"The Effect of Colonization and Globalization in the shaping of Phulkari: A case study of the Textiles of Punjab, India" . Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings .
^ Edwards, Eiluned (2020).
"4. Branding Tradition: The Commercialisation of Hand Embroidery in Gujarat" . In Harris, Jennifer (ed.). A Companion to Textile Culture . Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 73–74.
ISBN
978-1-118-76890-7 .
^ Mozumdar, Sreya (2020). "6. Revitalising the crafts and creative enterprises sector". In Mahajan, Vijay (ed.).
State of India's Livelihoods (PDF) . New Delhi: Access Development Services. pp. 113–116.
^ McGowan, Abigail (4 March 2021).
"Mothers and Godmothers of Crafts: Female Leadership and the Imagination of India as a Crafts Nation, 1947–67" . South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies . 44 (2): 282–297.
doi :
10.1080/00856401.2021.1876589 .
ISSN
0085-6401 .
S2CID
235304891 .
^ Littrell, Mary A.; Dickson, Marsha A. (2012).
"1. Artisan Enterprise, Fair Trade, and Business Social Responsibility and Accountability" . Artisans and Fair Trade: Crafting Development . Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press. p. 16.
ISBN
978-1-56549-321-6 .
^ Nath, Damini (6 August 2020).
"Abolition of handicrafts board a 'worrying' move, says NGO" . The Hindu . Archived from
the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022 .
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