Artisanship is the backbone of our culture and traditional livelihood. This is now under serious threats due to unabated globalization and the fall out therewith. While agriculture is considered as the core of rural economy in India, it has started showing stagnation and inability in absorbing mammoth rural unemployed mass as job providers. In this perspective, renewal and invigoration of artisans can make rural economy agile and belligerent, given an organized market in place is there to welcome the creativity, aesthetics and utility of traditional products and crafts, the products of rural artisans across India. The bookies a product of field research on the different factors and variances on rural artisans, near and around Shantiniketan, Birbhum, to offer the scholars and researchers with the methodological innovations and approaches in the concerned areas of studies and contemplations on artisans and artifacts of Rural India.

By S.K. Acharya and Mosaraf Hossain