Purba Bardhaman (Burdwan) is best known as a Bengali mishti hub — GI-tagged Mihidana and Sitabhog from Bardhaman city and the Langcha of Shaktigarh — as well as for the GI-tagged Natungram wooden dolls and the Dokra lost-wax metal craft of the Guskara area. The district's Hooghly-side fish, especially ruhi (hilsa), is another local specialty bought in the city's fish market.
Family workshop practising the lost-wax (dokra) craft handed down through four generations, making birds, deities and decorative panels in brass and copper wire.
