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Archive & Memory
Digital Archive
Moving fragile tribal memories into a permanent, accessible online archive — ensuring no story is lost to time or geography.
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Craft Revival
Hunar Project
A craft-revival program where museum-grade motifs are applied to modern apparel — training young women in embroidery, dressmaking, and indigenous design.
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Oral History
Lok Geet Documentation
Recording the migration songs and oral histories of the Himalayan highlands before they fade — preserving language, memory, and cultural knowledge.
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Online Museum Archive
Digital Preservation Initiative
One of the key initiatives of Re-Root is the collaboration with Kashmir Tribal Art Society (KTAS) in curating the digital preparation of the museum collection. We are working to create an online museum archive where artefacts, photographs, and cultural narratives are documented and made accessible through digital platforms.
This initiative helps preserve fragile materials, expand access for researchers and students, and allow people from different parts of the world to learn about Gujjar Bakarwal heritage — removing geography as a barrier to cultural understanding.
Craft Revival Program
The Hunar Project
The Hunar Project focuses on reviving traditional tribal crafts by training young women in embroidery, dressmaking, jewellery making, and indigenous design. The program preserves cultural knowledge while creating sustainable livelihood opportunities and strengthening pride in Gujjar-Bakarwal heritage.
By working directly with community artisans, we ensure that museum-grade motifs — those carrying centuries of cultural meaning — are faithfully applied to contemporary garments, bridging the ancestral and the modern.
Oral History Documentation
The Lok Geet Project
The Lok Geet Project documents traditional folk songs and oral narratives of Gujjar and Bakarwal communities. The project records elders singing lok geet — preserving language, migration memories, and cultural knowledge encoded in melody and verse.
These recordings are being safeguarded in our digital archive, ensuring these living traditions are available for future generations and researchers who would otherwise have no access to this disappearing knowledge.