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The artisans there — including a gold-leaf specialist, coppersmiths and wood carvers — fear that their meticulous work will be destroyed, as has happened in years past.

His father, a coppersmith and jeweler, settled with his family in Brooklyn a decade later.

Clangs rang from a coppersmith shaping bowls with a hammer.

I spoke to coopers, coppersmiths, jam makers, meat curers and farmers.

“Even if the painter’s son, a Chitrakar, wanted to do the coppersmith job of a Tamrakar, they weren’t able to,” he said, referring to another Hindu ethnic group.