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Dadpur village in Hooghly is a manufacturing hub for string instruments Enterprise

A quaint village in Hooghly becomes manufacturing hub for string instruments

Dadpur is India’s hub for manufacturing all types of string instruments including sitar, veena, rubab, tanpura and more. Retailers, wholesalers as well as artistes source handmade musical instruments from this village in West Bengal

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