Introduction

Madhya Pradesh have great cultural diversity because state have healthy percentage of tribal people. When we talk about art and craft  of any society we will notice that it was mainly carried forward by tribal people who took these arts and crafts work as there profession. It was not a hobby for them, done in free time but a source of livelihood which is done like a duty. They had creative competence to earn more thus there artistic capability developed with the passage of time. It is the reason how these arts and crafts passed from generation to generation. It they were limited to leisure activity or performed like a hobby then they might have finished long time back and shrinked to few families. It is a very prominent fact that art and craft flourished on those regions where tribal population or unprivileged class of society are more in composition. At Madhya Pradesh we can find healthy tribal population is districts like Mandla, Balaghat, Anuppur, Ashoknagar, Dhar, Indore, Mandsaur, Khargone, Bhopal, Ujjain etc. 

List of Arts

If you are looking for art and cultural part of Central India then we should must explore the tribal belt of Madhya Pradesh. We can find healthy tribal population in western, southern, eastern, north-western region. Here we can find various places to observe some amazing artistic work by unknown artists. In this region we will get exposure to arts like wood carving or wood sculpture, zari zardozi art, gond painting, bamboo art, handloom work, hand weaving work etc. In below given table, we have shared the list of art work that can be seen during Madhya Pradesh tour.

Art and Craft Destinations

Madhya Pradesh is blessed with healthy tribal population who retained their art and cultural values more than the privileged class of society. We are sharing these names to understand how much variety of art and craft work can be observed in Madhya Pradesh and how rich could be our trip.