Pottery making tradition among the Prajapati community of Gujarat, India

Year 2015, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 1 - 14, 30.11.2015

Mithun Sikdar Pritish Chaudhuri

Abstract

The making of pottery is an important event of prehistoric past and marked the beginning of
Neolithic revolution in human society. Its impact had largely revolutionized the colonization
of human groups and found a new way of cultural tradition. Few of the traditional
communities in the world still maintain this tradition as their occupation. Here we offer a
description of the pottery making tradition of the local “Prajapati” community of Central
Gujarat and the techniques utilise by them in their day to day life. They inherited the
technology of pottery making from their forefathers. The method of procuring the raw
materials, processing of the same and ultimately ending up with a final product take large of
their energy that has been depicted here with vivid description. 

Keywords

Traditional pottery making, Prajapati, Gujarat

References

• Duary N. (2008) Traditional Hira potters of lower Assam. Indian J Traditional Knowledge 7(1):98-102.