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INTRODUCTION:
One among the 29 states  Chhattisgarh reflected its presence in the year 2000, when it was separated from Madhya Pradesh and had its own separate province. The state itself has its own beauty of culture, tradition, lifestyle and so on. However taking into consideration is its tribal form of culture which brings a spark in human eye. It is a territory with strong tribal tradition of music and dance. Watching the folk culture of this holy state is itself the feeling of being in heaven. Equipped with rich cultural   and traditional legacies, Durg district is well known for its inspiring folk culture and is presented through various melodious songs and dance forms. Creating an image in the mind of viewers is itself a difficult task and the struggle of folk artist is very well discerned in their art. The term “folk artist” here encompasses the ability   to inherit the culture of particular   province. certainly  , there is a sudden click in my mind , what actually is folk art is ? Well in a versed  way , it is the art of everyday. It is well established  in its traditions that initialize from particular community and culture. FOLK ART intimates cultural identity by communicating   community values and ethics. It is randomly assumed  people who actually involve in depicting the folk art belong to scheduled tribes. However in my sense many of them are involved in this beautiful art irrespective of their tribes or social position. Moreover, writing about such great personalities made immense realization about beautiful  art.

Bastar: The Vanishing Tribal Art
Bastar Art got it's name from Bastar, an ancestral region of Chhattisgarh with the number of inhabitants in around 70% in the respective arena. Here, individuals are partitioned into various clans and every clan has its own way of life and a methodology  for living a happy life. They are not quite the same as each other from various perspectives, for example, bunches have an alternate convention, dialects they talk vary from each other, clothing, revere traditions, dietary patterns and substantially more. We  may think that its unusual that in the 21st century there are numerous ancestral gatherings living in the profound woods and unconscious of this evolving world. But revolving around such a culture is  certain kind of happiness all around.

Bastar Tribal People
The innate gatherings who are as yet living in Bastar locale are as per the following: Abhuj Maria, Bison Horn Maria, Bhatra, Dhurvaa, Gonds, Halbaa, Muria and so forth. Among the clans, Gonds are the biggest gathering of inborn group of focal India. These are certain tribes who are the main inhabitants of this province.

Bastar Handicrafts
The ancestral society of Bastar is mainstream for their work that incorporates sublime crafted works in various shapes and sizes. The specialty work fuse wood-carvings, Bell metal items, earthenware things, bamboo enhancing pieces.

BASTAR METAL CRAFTS
Bastar, being a thick woodland area having the finest nature of teak and distinctive sorts of woods from which incredibly charming wooden-cutting crafts

manships and diverse sorts of furniture are being made by the capable and experienced hands of the Artist. Tourists can get these alluring crafted works in shops of Jagdalpur effectively.

Earthenware Art
The clans of Bastar are the talented Artist making handmade earthenware items. Earthenware is finest quality dirt got from the stream Indrāvati. Beautifying earthenware things for the most part portrays elephants, tigers, deer, table lights and so forth.

Bamboo Crafts
Bastar inborn is likewise talented in making things from bamboo that joins the things, for example, tapestry, table lights, place settings, angling traps, crates and chasing devices.

Cotton Fabrics
cotton Fabrics are one of the prominent and engaging art work made by the ancestral individuals of Bastar. These are made of Kosa string which is delivered from a worm found in the woods. The hand printing is generally finished with the common vegetable color removed from aal, found in the Bastar backwoods. The textures use to make dress material, window hangings and cotton sari, prominently known as Bastar Kosa Saree.

Chime Metal Handicrafts
The Bastar clans are well known in influencing ringer to metal crafted works which are made by hand through the vanishing wax framework. The chime metal craftsmanship joins things, for example, elephant, deer, bull, horse, light shades, holders, boxes, and bins of various shapes and sizes.

The chime metal specialty of Bastar zone noticeably known as "Dhokra Craft" is found in Jagdalpur Kondagoan and Narayanpur regions. The Dhokla strength is attested to be age-old workmanship being transmitted starting with one age then onto the next.

BASTAR WOOD CRAFTS
These wooden works of art are made out of the finest teak wood and white wood. These wooden claims to fame consolidate models, furniture things et cetera among the furniture, Deewan (Cot with box) is astoundingly celebrated and charming since it incorporates the specialty of cutting with different pictures of Bastar culture and distinctive plans of interest. These made works are generally exchanged to better places of the country, and these wood things are additionally been asked for to be fare to outside nations.

BASTAR HANDICRAFTS
Woodcraft from the inborn belt of Bastar is known for figures of ancestral divine beings, cut wooden veils, and divider beautifying things. Chhattisgarh is furthermore notable for painted and lacquered wood thing, for instance, toys, boxes, bedposts, blossom vase, flame holder bunks.

The woodcarving workmanship has been flourishing in Chhattisgarh from time immemorial and one can find immaculately cut wooden things arranged by the master of the State.

PROFILE OF LEGENDARY
Ashok Chandrakar, a farmer from  Durg district, has conveyed grandness to the State as he was awarded at National Farmers Fair and Vegetable Showcasing program that was arranged out by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Chandrakar was awarded for his outstanding work in vegetable efficiency. Together with his dad Sukhlal  Chandrakar, Mr. ASHOK  was working under a large scale farm since thirty five years. He did an immense hard work in the field of farming and finally succeeded in the mere future. While the father used to slog on the fields, the son used to manage the kids. Regardless, today Ashok Chandrakar has offered work to 400 individuals and he is included among significant agriculturists of the nation and he cultivates vegetable on 700 acres of land.

The vegetable that he grows is been provided to significant urban cities like Delhi and Hyderabad too. He availed direction of Dr Dhananjay Sharma, Scientist, Department of Vegetable Science, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (IGKV). He owed his achievement to IGKV Vice-Chancellor Dr SK Patil, Director, Research, Dr JS Urkurkar and whole IGKV cooperative. Farmer Ashok Chandrakar got thrown three times in the fourth class but he never felt offended, he took this as a lesson and then began vending vegetables at the age of 12. I have a strong perception that ,if children of modern scenario inherits such an attitude than no one can stop them from achieving their dreams. He used to roam the streets and sell vegetables & today he owns a hundred acres of land and cultivates contract farm and works on 900 acres. Even today being so successful he chases his dreams and is a strong motivation and inspiration of kids of present scenario.

Niranjan Mahawar
==== History ==== History turns up in the surprising spot. Brush – an ordinary bit of plastic concealed in the dresser drawers requires an alternate creative ability thirty two years back, ethnologist and inborn workmanship student of history Niranjan Mahawar at 25 years began unordinary gathering of brushes. Today, he has collected more than 1600 and, through them, an abundance of data about the way of life and social implying that they contain for the inborn individuals who wears them: three spots shaping a triangle are illustrations honey bees that make life by taking dust from blooms to blossoms, two triangles over each other framing a star symbolize reproduction while fruitfulness is spoken to by stallions. He has added 350 brushes to his gathering around Raipur where he has spent a lifetime gathering innate craftsmanship to comprehend their legacy. The convention of wearing and making brushes in their hair, the way other individuals wear gems. These were wore by the clans like Bhils of Rajasthan and Gonds of Madhya Pradesh. Numerous brushes were there in the accumulation of Mahawar originate from Bastar, which has a rich history surroundings its brushes.

Brushes formed like winged creatures or blooms are well known with Bhils. They are utilized to brush moustaches kept up by the men of clans. Mahawar proposes the way that brushes to be cut on the entryways of santhal homes and inked on the arms is maybe verification to their inception in enchantment and religion. He clarifies that they turned out to be a piece of old stories, old stories has now come to be cherished in them.

A few brushes, molded like tortoise, review a well known Madia inborn myth. The story behind this is after the immense surge, two youngsters were found in a gourd on the back of tortoise. Madias revere the tortoise since they trust that it spared the lives on earth.

Mahawar says that "brushes are crude questions however they have obtained a refinement that is minimal comprehended," who has experienced Indian imagery and the dialect of symbols with a fine tooth – brush.

Profession of Niranjan Mahawar
Being a self-taught ethnologist of Chattisgarh, Niranjan Mahawar has studied the life and art of the Bastar tribe.Niranjan Mahavar earned a postgraduate degree in economics from Sagar University in 1960 and in 1962 his family business went to Bastar for the care of Rice Mill. He was attracted to the life-style of tribals and started documenting on various aspects of tribal arts and culture. Along with this, he started working on tribal myths, folk literature and various lifestyles. As a tribal expert in the executive committee of Madhya Pradesh Tribal Folk Council, he remained a member for eight years. The Council has also served eight years of work in the Advisory Board of Quarterly Magazine published by the Council for 20 years and as a specialist in the folk tribal culture of the South-Central Area Cultural Center. At the age of 25, he began an unusual collection of combs. And till the age of 57, he has collected over 1600 combs. Along with it, they contain the information about the culture and social meaning for tribals. The motive behind collecting the tribal art is to understand the heritage they embody.

Importance of Tribal Art in different states
The culture of crafting and wearing combs in the hair, is still continued by the tribals like Gonds of Madhya Pradesh and the Bhils of Rajasthan.

Bastar, has a rich history surrounding the Mahawar's Comb. There are unique shapes of combs like flowers or birds in flight and they were popular among the Bhils. The men's of the tribe maintained the comb moustaches. Beautiful mango shaped motif is engraved on the combs of Gwarias of Ajmer. Combs were also considered as a part of Shringar.

Combs can give insights in understanding inborn traditions and customs. This type of research should help historians to throw fresh light on it.

Books written by Niranjan Mahawar
Mahawar has worked on tribal myths, folk literature and various lifestyles. Based on that work he created four books on tribal and folk arts, eight on the folk drama, tribal studies, four monographs.

Niranjan Mahawar has written many books on tribal art and folk culture such as "Pandwani Mahabharat Ki Ek Lok Natya Shaily", "Chhattisgarh Ki Shilpkala", "Lokrang Chattisgarh", "Arts and Crafts of Chattisgarh", Performing Arts of Chattisgarh","Bastar and Bronzes: Tribal Religion and Arts "and so on.