Author: Asad Nawab
wood carving city of India
Saharanpur (India) is internationally famous for wood carving. Dating back to about 400 years in the Mughal period, some craftsmen came from Kashmir and settled down in Saharanpur and took this work to earn their bread and butter. Notorious for its caste-based riots and communal violence, a few are aware that Saharanpur is also known as the ‘wood carving city …