Routes From Roots

The Mango obsession: An only legacy that flowed impeccably from one generation to another in the Mughal empire.   Have you ever wondered about what made Babur come to India? Surely Daulat Khan Lodi invited Babur as He assured a good portion of the Lodi empire and the war gift but to convince Babur to face Rana Sanga of Mewar necessitated something far unique and that "something unique" was mangoes.  A few decades later, his great-grandson Aurangzeb offered mangoes to Shah Abbas of Persia to aid him in his fight for the throne. Later, the King of Balkan also had given Aurangzeb 200 camel loads of dry fruits and mangoes as a peace pact. There was a myth that Humayun while on the run from India to Kabul assured that mangoes were adequate to supply with the help of Babar's courier system. While Akbar built the Lakhi Bagh (near Darbhanga) of 100 thousand mango trees – one of the earliest example of grafting of mangoes, which the Nawab of Rampur tried emulating under the Crown’

  In India, we can find a different kind of handcrafted Gudda Gudiya,  all of the pair of Gudda Gudiyas have a cultural and ritualistic significance which makes them special and significant in those regions.  Batto bai dolls are considered propitious dolls of Gwalior. The unmarried women married these pair of dolls on the occasion of the Teej festival in hope of getting married soon.  A woman from Gwalior whose name was Batto Bai shows her craft out of the household waste products and made a pair of dolls which are known by her name, Batto Bai Dolls.  She won many state and central government awards for contributing to Indian craft.  Shikha Dhakad dhakadshikha@gmail.com

   Gwalior city is known for its rich culture, religious, spiritual and historic values. Situated in the state of  Madhya Pradesh, India. The old city of Gwalior is filled by a diverse heritage and culture which can be experienced by exploring these old lanes of the city. Today this beautiful city encompasses the three-ancient settlements namely Old Gwalior, Lashkar and Morar. During the ruling period of Rajputs, Mughals, Britisher’s and Scindia’s the city had political and trading importance due to which the city manifests infinite heritage localities and old lanes. Among the tourists, the city is majorly famous for its monuments, handicrafts, multi-religious wayfaring centre, market areas but eventually, for apprehending the city's authentic culture we need to explore its historical market areas, old localities and lanes. Gwalior has numerous historical market areas, old localities and lanes, some of them are Hazira, Sarafa Bazar, Naya Bazar, Loha Mandi, Jiwaji Ganj, Kainth Wali

Introduction: World History of Carpets Carpets origin is still considered mysterious but, surely, raddling forms of floor covering clothes are present since Neolithic age (Around 7000BC). We have numbers of different mysterious stories and clues for the evolution of carpets. One of the oldest and best-referring documentary is “The Little Brown Guide to Carpets” by Enza Milanesi. In this book, she gave two theories. In her first theory, she mentioned that “ It is believed that Carpets were invented by the nomadic people to protect them from the adverse climatic changes and maybe there was no direct contact with the ground but ultimately in last those highly knotted cloths started using for covering their ground and sometimes their huts too. It is documented that “Persian style of carpet weaving started in Iran then Persia. In chines text, the shreds of evidence of Persian carpets, during the ruling period of Sassanid dynasty (224-641AD) and we considered it as the first and

"India is as an ocean of flair when it comes to the handicrafts and craft makers". Along with these lines, this blog thinks of the one of kind workmanship of Madhya Pradesh from Gwalior, that is Batto Bai Dolls of Gwalior. Batto Bai Dolls? The craftswoman whose name was Batto Bai began making these dolls for the districts however later they got world-renowned and then she gave the name to dolls as Batto Bai Dolls. Her grandson, Bharat Singh Parihar said "his grandma took in this handcrafted craft of making dolls from his mother-in-law after she got married and now her mother Mrs Naval Kishori along with his wife are into making these dolls. Story behind these dolls? Batto bai dolls are the pair of male and female dolls, so essentially one of the principle idea driving creation these dolls as Gudda and guddiya were to cause the pair to get married on the special Hindu occasion of Gangaur and Teej by the unmarried young ladies with the expectation of getti

The tourism industry is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors in India and is expected to contribute about Four trillion rupees to the Indian economy by 2024 (Chauhan, 2016). Due to this reason the tourism industry is developing new alternative forms of tourism around the world. As well as today’s generation needs and wants are changing. They want to experience, exploring and enjoying their tour. Nowadays traveller desires to learn new-new things and doing some unusual kind of activities so that they can experience some out of the box kind of new stuff. The main reason behind merging up the Handicraft industry into the tourism industry by coming up with the name “Handicraft Tourism” is that the Tourism industry has multidimensional, social, cultural, economic and political characteristics. It is not only a growth engine but also an employment generator. As per the UN’s world tourism organization, tourism provides around 6-7% of the world’s total jobs directly and millions mo