Sustainable Development of Tribal Community of Palghar District with Special Reference to Warli Paintings.

Warli art which is mainly designed by the tribal women and this is an aesthetic folk art of Maharashtra. We find the Warli and Malkhar Koli tribes in Palghar district which is on the northern outskirts of Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra which is a part of Western India. As it was developed in Warli tribe in the early seventies, it was named as “Warli Art”. In this form of art, tribal people execute the art mainly on the walls of their house using natural resources as material. They express themselves through true to life paintings. The important feature of this art is depiction of social life, animals, human beings, daily life scenes or events. These paintings are done by using natural resources like mud base using one white colour made up of rice powder to decorate their mud houses. In 1970s this art took a radical change when an artist Jivya Soma Mashe started the painting for regular basis and not as a part of rituals. This tribal art form now shifted to paper and cloth from the walls of their houses. Warli painting has now become popular and sold all over in India and abroad. A lot of merchandise like T-shirts, coasters, pen stands with Warli designs and motifs got popular and generated a lot of demand. Those started getting sold through exhibitions and tourist outlets. Taking into consideration the availability of the various platforms such as exhibitions and art festivals, the Warli artists are widening the gamut of their array for paintings created outside the traditional context and their native. The new demand and new markets are opened for Warli artists who experimented and successfully created something outside the conventional and traditional space and ideas from within which Warli art originated and was sustained by. The Data Collection was performed by conducting informal interviews for qualitative data and quantitative data collected through survey, questionnaire. Tools and technique were including images, observations. This paper throws light on the Warli paintings development in the direction of sustainable development. Contribution of various organizations working in support for the development of Warli tribe and art and how the people are benefitted by these organizations etc is focused in this paper.[i] References [i] www.warli.ac.i