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During the last fifty and odd eventful post-independence years, through which the Indian gems and jewellery sector has re-emerged as a great force in the precious world, is it not astonishing that a floor-squatting country has become a global internet, website supplier and e-commerce trader today?

Over this modern period, Indian gems and jewellery sector has contributed handsomely to employment and exports, so much so that today it accounts for nearly 20.00 per cent of the total outflow of finished goods from the country. Hundreds of thousands of men and women employed by the diamonds, Jewellery and colored gems industries number over one and a half million-more than the total workforce of all other gems and jewellery manufacturing countries taken together growth and progress are all the more noteworthy when we look at the historic turn when won freedom in the year 1947. While it brought joy and unlimited hopes for all sectors of industry and trade, the domestic gems and jewellery sector stood friendless with the future confronting it with a big question mark. The reason?

It may be recalled that when an independent India opted to become a Democratic Republic, the transformation not only banished the ruling British Royalty but also eliminated the Indian Princely States and Maharajas. Consequently the gems and jewellery sector found itself in doldrums sans clientele, because previously its goods were patronized mainly by the Indian Maharajas and the elite. Their fading away created a big void.

For sometime the Indian gems sector also stood somewhat depleted because many skilled artisans and jewellers migrated to newly formed Pakistan following partition of the country.