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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.<ref name="Mrazek2008">{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Richard H. |editor1-last=Mrazek |editor1-first=Jan |editor2-last=Pitelka |editor2-first=Morgan |title=What's the Use of Art?: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context |date=2008 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |location=Honolulu |isbn=978-0-8248-3063-2 |pages=84–85 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i7MdZK8vyKMC&dq=all+india+handicrafts+board&pg=PA84 |language=en |chapter=3. From the wedding chamber to the museum: relocating the ritual arts or Madhubani}}</ref> The AIHB was established in 1952.<ref name=Salvi1999>{{cite book |last1=Salvi |first1=Gouri |title=Development Retold: Voices from the Field |date=1999 |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |isbn=978-81-7022-798-4 |pages=97–107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RGYdgQWpzHAC&dq=fori+nehru&pg=PA97 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Gupta2016>{{cite journal |last1=Gupta |first1=Anu |last2=Mehta |first2=Shalina |title=The Effect of Colonization and Globalization in the shaping of Phulkari: A case study of the Textiles of Punjab, India |journal=Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings |date=1 January 2016 |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/990/|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Harris2020>{{cite book |last1=Edwards |first1=Eiluned |editor1-last=Harris |editor1-first=Jennifer |title=A Companion to Textile Culture |date=2020 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=Hoboken |isbn=978-1-118-76890-7 |pages=73–74 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJb0DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22All+India+Handicrafts+Board%22+2020&pg=PA73 |language=en |chapter=4. Branding Tradition: The Commercialisation of Hand Embroidery in Gujarat}}</ref> Its first chair was [[Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay]].<ref name=Mozumdar2020>{{cite book |last1=Mozumdar |first1=Sreya |editor1-last=Mahajan |editor1-first=Vijay |title=State of India's Livelihoods |date=2020 |publisher=Access Development Services |location=New Delhi |pages=113–116 |url=https://www.aiacaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Soil_Report-2021.pdf#page=126 |chapter=6. Revitalising the crafts and creative enterprises sector}}</ref> Other early key figures included [[Lakshmi Chand Jain]], [[Kitty Shiva Rao]] and [[Fori Nehru]].<ref name=Salvi1999/><ref name=McGowan2021>{{cite journal |last1=McGowan |first1=Abigail |title=Mothers and Godmothers of Crafts: Female Leadership and the Imagination of India as a Crafts Nation, 1947–67 |journal=South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies |date=4 March 2021 |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=282–297 |doi=10.1080/00856401.2021.1876589 |s2cid=235304891 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00856401.2021.1876589 |issn=0085-6401|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==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]].<ref name=Littrell2012>{{cite book |last1=Littrell |first1=Mary A. |last2=Dickson |first2=Marsha A. |title=Artisans and Fair Trade: Crafting Development |date=2012 |publisher=Kumarian Press |location=Sterling, VA |isbn=978-1-56549-321-6 |page=16 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mh9n_9hsNmIC&pg=PA16 |language=en |chapter=1. Artisan Enterprise, Fair Trade, and Business Social Responsibility and Accountability}}</ref><ref name=Wilkinson1999>{{cite book |last1=Wilkinson-Weber |first1=Clare M. |title=Embroidering Lives: Women's Work and Skill in the Lucknow Embroidery Industry |date=1999 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=0-7914-4087-7 |pages=161–164 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChwRC6hQttoC&pg=PA161|language=en |chapter=Development schemes and State patronage}}</ref>

==Disestablishment==
The AIHB was abolished by the Government of India in 2020, during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name="Nath2020">{{cite news |last1=Nath |first1=Damini |title=Abolition of handicrafts board a 'worrying' move, says NGO |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/abolition-of-handicrafts-board-a-worrying-move-says-ngo/article32281124.ece |access-date=28 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220301073045/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/abolition-of-handicrafts-board-a-worrying-move-says-ngo/article32281124.ece|archive-date=1 March 2022|work=The Hindu |date=6 August 2020 |language=en-IN}}</ref>

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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |last1=Delhi |first1=Publications Division (India), New |title=AKASHVANI: Vol. XXVI. No. 43. (22 OCTOBER, 1961) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtHtDwAAQBAJ&dq=all+india+handicrafts+board+1952&pg=PA53 |publisher=Publications Division (India), New Delhi |language=en |date=22 October 1961}}
*{{cite journal |title=Kamaladevi Ji's vision for Development of Handicrafts and Handlooms through the Co-operative Movement |journal=International Journal of Intangible Cultural Heritage |url=https://globalinch.org/article/?starting_with=K |issn=2581-9410}}
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