CONTENTS:- Towards Bamboo Mission; Bamboo Legends and Bamboo Heroes; Introducing Bamboo; Regeneration, Harvesting and Bamboo Management; Bamboo as Medicinal Herb; Paper Making from Bamboo; Rayon from Bamboo; Commercially Important Bamboo Species; State Wise Distribution of Bamboo Species in India; Bamboo: A Restorative of Our Forest; Splitting and Peeling of Bamboo; Processing: Treatment, Bleaching and Dyeing; Finishes in Bamboo; Tools for Bamboo; Lessons from Japan; Traditional Wisdoms and Bamboo Research; Bamboo Craft and Basketry of Manipur; Bamboo Craft of Nagaland; Bamboo Craft of Arunachal Pradesh; Bamboo Craft of Tripura; Bamboo Craft of Mizoram; Bamboo Craft of Meghalaya; The Bamboo Craft of Assam; The Bamboo Craft of Sikkim; The Bamboo Craft of West Bangal; The Bamboo Craft of Orissa; The Bamboo Craft of Bihar and Jharkhand; The Bamboo Craft of Uttar Pradesh; The Bamboo Craft of Uttaranchal; The Bamboo Craft of Himachal Pradesh; The Bamboo Craft of Jammu & Kashmir; The Bamboo Craft of Maharashtra; The Bamboo Products of Madhya Pradesh and Chhatishgrah; The Bamboo Products of Karnataka and Goa; The Use of Bamboo in Andhra Pradesh; The Bamboo Products of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry; The Use of Bamboo in Kerala; Rain, Rain Water Harvesting and Bamboo; Bamboo Vinegar and Bamboo Wine; Clusterisation of Bamboo Products; Bamboo as Fuel; Approach to Bamboo Product Development; THIO of Bamboo Sector; SWOT of Bamboo Sector; Social Security for Bamboo Artisans.