1. 1. The idea of taste is uniform throughout the paper. By promoting traditional Indian products excelling in craftsmanship, the British catered to the taste of British gentry and European markets and aimed to raise the Indian public taste by standardizing it to their taste.
2. 2. Exhibition of Indian Art held at the Government House, New Delhi, November 6-December 31, 1948, quoted by Guha-Thakurta, T., Monuments, Objects and Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India, Columbia University Press, New York, 2004, p. 175, (emphasis mine).
3. 3. The economic plight of the handicraft gave origin to the economic ideas of Indian leadership which was led by Dadabhai Naroji who was soon to be followed by brilliant economic ideas of prominent individuals like Gokhale, M.G. Ranade, G.V. Joshi, R.C. Dutt, G.S. Iyer. Realizing the nature of British policies of development of Indian economy, the nationalists demanded fundamental changes in existing economic relation between India and Britain which would cut at the very roots of colonialism. One such demand of Indian leadership was the state assistance of indigenous industry without promotion of state policy of industrial enterprise. However, the most accepted and advocated method to encourage the traditional Indian industries and check growing poverty of India was the idea of swadeshi. Swadeshi movement stood for encouragement for use of Indian made manufactures while rejecting/boycotting foreign goods. As the tide of swadeshi rose many people advocated and practised swadeshi so as to save the native artisans and handicraftsmen from ruin at hands of foreign goods.
4. 4. For example, traditional craft carried out by use of hands and not machine such as ornament in woodcarving, weaving, embroidery, etc.\
5. 5. Evelyn, Stuart M., East Indian Art Handicraft, Fine Arts Journal, 35(6), 1917, p. 406.