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Synopsis The Development ushers in series of changes in the social system. The changes are both radical and long lasting. However, it remains an issue before any intellectual discourse whether everything undergoes change or we are just fond of using the expression ‘radical change’. In the backdrop of this intellectual curiosity, the present work tries to examine the degree of change occurred as a result of the development in a micro-cosm of the Punjab society, i.e., the occupation of smithy. During the last two decades, Punjab has achieved tremendous development. Not agricultural growth. The green revolution has also led to the emergence of agro-based industries, market economy and well developed transportation system. One occupation which was inseparably linked with agriculture, besides, its other crucial importance in war, was smithy. Farmer or peasant and the smith like the warrior and the sword (smith) were almost coterminus. In such an environment of agricultural development along with its concomitant changes it becomes; important to see what has happened to the smith. The author has tried to find the answer with the help of the empirical data. It has necessarily transform everything. Acknowledging that many things may left for future investigation, this work authoritatively establishing and puts forward that the impact of development is Janus-headed, i.e., both change and continuity characterise a developing society. The work opens new areas of investigation through the examination of one traditional occupation which should have undergone radical change by questioning that the very issue of the direction of change.