1st Edition

Made Only in India Goods with Geographical Indications

By Anu Kapur Copyright 2016
252 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

250 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

250 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

What makes Darjeeling tea, Pashmina shawl, Monsooned Malabar Arabica coffee and Chanderi saree special? Why is it that some goods derive their uniqueness through their inherent linkage to a place? In a pioneering study, this book explores this intriguing question in the Indian context across 199 registered goods with geographical indications, linked with their place of origin. It argues that the... Read more

List of Figures  List of Tables  Preface: My Bond  Foreward  Acknowledgements: Intention and Gratitude  1. Geographical Indications: Place Matters  2. Bonding: Place Goods Made Only in India  3. Nurturing  4. Destroying  5. Resurrecting  6. Searching  7. Concerns : Place Goods Made Only in India 8. Geographical Indications: Place Gathers  Annexures  Bibliography

Biography

Anu Kapur is Professor of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Teen Murti, New Delhi; and recipient of the prestigious Amartya Sen Award in Social Sciences. She has authored books including Paradise in Peril: An Ecological Profile of the Kashmir Valley (1995), Indian Geography: A Future with a Difference (1998), Voice of Concern: Indian Geography (2002), On Disasters in India (2009) and Vulnerable India: A Geographical Study of Disasters (2010).