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ASHARIKNADI, is a World Famous village known for its hand Made terracotta products. more than 80% of people living in this colony are Directly involved in Terracotta. 
 

A small cluster where male and female, young and old of altogether eighty families are always busy shaping and creating a range of fascinating terracotta and pottery items is  Asharikandi craft village under Devitola  Development Block of Dhubri district of Assam.

NECARDO- North East Craft and Rural Development Organisation, an NGO that works for the preservation and promotion of the traditional craft and welfare of the craft persons claims that Asharikandi is one of the largest clusters of Terracotta and Pottery in North East India.

An object of art made of a composition of clay and sand and baked with earthen color, a brownish red, is Terracotta. Terracotta is one of the oldest crafts that human beings ever introduced on this earth. It was once considered to be the poor men's craft. But in course of time, it has made its access and occupied a distinct identity among all classes of people of its aesthetic value.