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Central Cottage Industries Emporium

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Central Cottage Industries Emporium (CCIE), also known as the Cottage and Cottage Emporium, is an Indian Government owned arts and crafts flagship department store and cultural center in Janpath, New Delhi, India. It works to preserve declining arts and craft forms, and provides support to craftspersons. Indian handicrafts sold there come from several Indian States, and include Bankura silver, tea, dress material, clothing, accessories, and decorative furnishings. The Cottage was created in Delhi in 1948 by the Indian Government's Central Ministry of Industry and Commerce. After making an initial loss, India's then Primeminister Jawaharlal Nehru, asked Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay of the Indian Cooperative Union (ICU) to take over its management. In 1952 the Cottage incorporated 'Refugee Handicrafts', an employment agency formed in 1947 by Fori Nehru, Kitty Shiva Rao, Achamma Mathai, and Prem Bery, arranged to provide paid work to the then recent influx of refugee women from Punjab following the partition of India. The two organisations merged in 1952 and Chattopadhyay became its first president. Past visitors have included Jacqueline Kennedy, Catherine Galbraith, Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Queen Farah of Iran and Margaret Thatcher.

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Central Cottage Industries Emporium
Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi Connaught Place (Chanakya Puri Tehsil)

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Tolstoy Marg
110001 New Delhi, Connaught Place (Chanakya Puri Tehsil)
Delhi, India
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