Krishna R It is said that the art of sambalpuri Handloom Paridhaan Self Design Cotton Saree migrated to Western Odisha with the Bhulia community who are believed to have fled Northern India after the fall of the ChouhanEmpire at the hands of the Mughals in the year 1192 AD. Since then and up to the year 1925, this art flourished in Western Odisha with just limited number of designs and consisted mostly of saris used by the womenfolk of Odisha that came in few standard vegetable colours. These saris were known as ‘Bhulia-Kapta’. The demand was restricted only to Odisha and the craftsmen lived in penury until in 1980’s, the then prime minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi popularized the weave throughout the country by wearing them.
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