Illustrating Craft

This book is based on the karkhanajat papers comprising roznama or roznamcha (daily ledgers), arhsatta (provide details on income and expenditure), siyah (lists details on the raw material in a karkhana), taujih jama kharch (gives details on raw material, the process of manufactur¬ing and finished items, remarks on the wages and the operational techniques of the crafts¬men) and rare documents available in the Town Hall Museum at Jaipur and the Rajasthan State Archives, Bikaner.