{"id":10392,"date":"2023-05-04T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T04:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10392"},"modified":"2025-03-29T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:29:34","slug":"what-are-channapatna-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-channapatna-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Channapatna Toys?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Channapatna Toys:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Channapatna toys are a particular form of <strong>wooden toys and dolls<\/strong> that are <strong>manufactured in the town of Channapatna<\/strong> in the Ramanagara district of <strong>Karnataka<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Channapatna is also known as <strong>Gombegala Ooru (toy-town<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>History<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The historic ruler of Mysore, <strong>Tipu Sultan,<\/strong> is the one <strong>attributed to introducing these wooden toys<\/strong> to the current town of Channapatna.<\/li>\n<li><strong>He invited artists from Persia to train the local artists<\/strong> <strong>in wooden toy making, which <\/strong>then helped this industry thrive locally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Most of these toys are <strong>handmade<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are also <strong>painted in organic colours<\/strong> extracted from vegetables and plants and natural dyes, making the Channapatna Toys 100% chemical free.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Traditionally,<\/strong> they are mostly <strong>made of Ivory Wood<\/strong>. However, nowadays, <strong>sandalwood and mango wood are also used.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>shapes are mostly round and cubes with blunt edges,<\/strong> so they are <strong>completely safe for kids<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>received the geographical indication (GI) tag<\/strong> in 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Geographical Indication (GI) tag?<\/h3>\n<p>A geographical indication (GI) is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin. In order to function as a GI, a sign must identify a product as originating in a given place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/centres-ban-on-import-of-toys-from-china-increased-our-profits-say-channapatna-toy-makers\/1553241\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Centre\u2019s ban on import of toys from China increased our profits, say Channapatna toy makers<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channapatna toys are wooden toys and dolls that are manufactured in the town of Channapatna in Karnataka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}