Routes From Roots

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...

It is one of a significant spectacular shrine in Gwalior dedicated to the holy Sun God. constructed by the famous industrialist Ghanshyam Das Birla.  The temple construction was completed in 1988, the construction took almost four years and four days. Gwalior Sun Temple has almost the same basic architecture just like a  legendary   Konark Sun Temple, Puri, Orissa. The temple is constructed by red sandstone and pearly white marble. Sun temple is situated in the middle of the Garden and initially, the name of the garden was Tapovan Garden but after the completion, the name of the garden changed to  Surya Van or Surya Garden.  In terms of architecture, the temple looks like a chariot pulled by seven horses, four horses on one side and three horses on another side of the temple with 24 wheels, the seven horses symbolize or represent the seven days of a week and the 24 wheels signify the 24 hours of a day in which 12 wheels reveals day time and  the 12...

The Maharaj bada is also known as Laskar in Gwalior, initially, it was the capital of Scindia dynasty as well as it was the capital of central India (Madhya Bharat) from 1950 to 1956. the place is highly rich by the royal heritage of Gwalior. The word Laskar come from the Persian language which means "Army or camp". As the Mughals and then the Marathas ruled for the longest time span and also the Britishers ruled for a very short time period in the Gwalior, so the significance of the Maratha's, Mughal's, and Britisher's can be seen at Maharaj bada in terms of architectural culture. The specialty or can say the greatness of this place in Gwalior is that it showcases the seven different architectural buildings located in one place out of them, the most majestic one is located in the center of the Maharaj Bada, the statue of the king Jiyaji Rao Scindia Ji, it indicates the miscellaneous architectural features of the Russian, Rajputana, and Marathi architectures a...

  A season to traverse the elegant grassy world, A season to feel the light green beautiful trees, A season of smelling the elegant earthy aroma, A season for dancing under the open sky, A season to enjoy the rainy waterfall, A season to explore the savory local monsoon gastronomies, Let’s explore the season of Monsoon.  Gwalior have lots of various monsoon weekend gateways in the hub of nature, or some majestic excursion gateways to enjoy the beautiful water bodies, some of them to enjoy the weekend's gateway are Tigera Dam, Bhadawana Waterfall, Pagara Dam and much more. I created the best three monsoon weekend destinations nearby Gwalior.             ·       Bhadawana waterfall, Gwalior As Gwalior's outskirts are surrounded by the backside of the Aravalli ranges/hills so the outskirts of the magnificent city Gwalior shows the majestic natural greenery views. This monsoon is the best to enjoy the m...

Create Memories with Handicrafts" As we all know, handicrafts are unique in their own right due to environmental factors, culture, and a variety of other factors. Do you know anything about our Gwalior city's handicrafts? Our city is known as Gwalior's Heritage City, but most Gwalior residents are unaware of the city's heritage handicrafts. Everyone believes that we have a fort, a museum, and other Gwalior monuments, but we do not have heritage. We have a very rich tangible heritage as well as "handicrafts" and many other things of Gwalior about which many people are unaware, and after a certain time period people will have no idea what is our heritage.   Our city's artefacts are well-known throughout the world, and one of them is the "Batto bai doll." Batto Bai Dolls are a status symbol in our city, and we are the unofficial brand ambassadors of our handicrafts, including Batto Bai Dolls. Doll craft from Madhya Pradesh can compete with many...