Nirona
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Nirona (नीरोना) is a historical village in Nakhatrana tahsil of Kachchh district of Gujarat. Nirona PIN: 370001
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Location
Nairona is located 32 kms north-west of Bhuj.
History
Located around 40 km north of Bhuj, Nirona village is where you can find three very unique local art forms — one of which even made its way to The White House. the popular Rogan art, a legacy art form that has been taken forward, for the past 300 years. Resembling the characteristics of embroidery, Rogan art is when you paint on fabric using a thick brightly coloured castor seed oil (castor is commonly grown in the Kutch region of Gujarat). To prepare the paint, castor oil is heated for more than 12 hours till it catches fire. It is then mixed with cold water and vibrant color to give a thick residue called rogan. The artist then uses a six-inch thick-metal needle to paint with a fine thread of rogan on a piece of cloth. Even the simplest design takes days to complete.
Next in the list is The Luhars of Nirona, and their popular Copper Bell art. Preserving it for the last 10 or so generations, many families in Nirona get their livelihood totally out of this. Copper Bell art has mainly originated from Sindh, and even today many villages around the border area inside India and Pakistan make it.
Third is the art of Lacquer. Practised by a semi-nomadic tribe called Wada, in the Banni area in and around the villages of Nirona and Bhirandiayara, Lacquer art turned out to be yet another distinction. The art and the tribe practising it is the original migrants from beyond Sindh, before partition.[1]
नैरोना
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[2] ने लेख किया है ...नैरोना (AS, p.507) कच्छ, गुजरात में स्थित है, जो कि प्राचीन समय में एक महत्त्वपूर्ण नगर और बन्दरगाह था। भुज से 20 मील (लगभग 32 कि.मी.) की दूरी पर उत्तर-पश्चिम में नैरोना स्थित है। प्राचीन काल के इस बंदरगाह के चिह्न अब भी मिलते हैं। (ट्रेवल्स इन टू बोखारा 1835, जिल्द 1, अध्याय 17.) अरबों के भारत पर आक्रमण के समय तथा उससे पहले नैरोना बंदरगाह अच्छी दशा में रहा होगा, ऐसा प्रतीत होता है।