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'''Mysore Agarbathi''' is a variety of [[Incense|incense sticks]] manufactured at Mysore using locally grown ingredients which was found only in state of [[Karnataka]] before. This incense has been awarded [[Geographical Indication]] tag from the [[Government of India]] in 2005 due to its historic background and remote availability of material used.<ref name=indgeo>{{cite journal |year=2005 |journal=Geographical Indications Journal |issue=4 |publisher= Government of India |title= Geographical Indications Journal No. 4 Application Number 18|url=http://ipindia.nic.in/girindia/journal/4.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410025826/http://ipindia.nic.in/girindia/journal/4.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-04-10 |language=en }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = CM asks Centre to reconsider decision on IIT in Dharwad | newspaper = Deccan Herald | year =2015| url = http://www.deccanherald.com/content/501942/cm-asks-centre-reconsider-decision.html}}</ref> Aptly, Mysore is also home to the world's largest manufacturer of agarbathi - N. Ranga Rao & Sons popularly known for the [https://www.cycle.in/agarbathies Cycle Pure Agarbathies] {{citation needed|date=February 2020}}.<br />
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==History==<br />
The making of incense sticks, also called 'agarbathi' in [[Hindi]], became an organised industry in Bangalore during the 1900s and was locally known as oodabathies (blowing fumes). The incense sticks were very simple to manufacture, as it was only a paste of natural ingredients mixed with charcoal and Gijit, and rolled on to bamboo sticks. The proportion of mixing was of main importance. Maharaja of Mysore was patronised the production and promotion of the incense sticks.<ref>{{cite web |first=CHANDRASHEKHAR |last=DODDAMANI |title=CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, INDIA DIAGNOSTIC STUDY ARTISAN AGARBATHI (INCENSE STICK) CLUSTER MYSORE (KARNATAKA) |url=http://www.clustercollaboration.eu/documents/270930/0/Diagnostic+Study+Report+of+Agarbathi,+Mysore,+Karnataka.pdf |publisher=UNIDO |location=NEw Delhi |page=3 |language=en |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109165510/http://www.clustercollaboration.eu/documents/270930/0/Diagnostic%2BStudy%2BReport%2Bof%2BAgarbathi%2C%2BMysore%2C%2BKarnataka.pdf |archivedate=9 January 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />
Mr T.l Updhayay from Thirithalli [[shimoga]] & Attar Khasim Sahib from [[Tanjavur]] started insence industry in mysore on 1885 and won certificate of merit from wembley exhibition, london. This made the then mysore local government to disperse the insence sticks as gifts to visitors and guests from other land and since then with various industrialists have grown the local industry by exporting it to other countries.<ref name=indgeo/><br />
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==Method of manufacturing==<br />
Herbs, flowers, Essential oil, barks, roots, charcoal are finely ground into smooth paste and then rolled on to a bamboo stick and then dired undersun, special wood like [[sandalwood]], Ailanthus malabaricum which yields halmadi and other natural ingredients were geographically only available in Karnataka before which gives special geographical indications<br />
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==Geographical Indication==<br />
The all India agarbhati association proposed the registration of Mysore Agarbathi under the Geographical Indications of Goods Act, 1999, to the Office of the Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, [[Chennai]], in order to make it exclusive the manufacturers of insence sticks who use only local available natural ingredients from the region to use the name Mysore.<ref name=indgeo/> It was granted the Geographical Indication status, three years later, in 2005.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Mysore Sandalwood Oil]]<br />
* [[Mysore Sandal Soap]]<br />
* [[Mysore pak]]<br />
* [[Navalgund Durries]]<br />
* [[Coorg Green Cardamom]]<br />
* [[List of Geographical Indications in India]]<br />
* [[Incense Route]]<br />
*[[Japanese incense#Kōdō|Kōdō]], incense arts<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Mysore]]<br />
[[Category:Geographical indications in Karnataka]]<br />
[[Category:Incense in India]]<br />
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