{"id":5944,"date":"2022-12-15T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T05:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5944"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:20:27","slug":"what-is-beypore-uru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-beypore-uru\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Beypore Uru?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Beypore Uru:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a wooden dhow (ship \/ sailing boat \/ sailing vessel) handcrafted by skilled artisans and carpenters in Beypore, Kerala.<\/li>\n<li>It is mainly made of Malabar teak, probably the biggest handicraft in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Beypore urus are purely made of wood, without using any modern techniques, and traditional methods are used to launch this ship into the water.<\/li>\n<li>The carpenters manually join each piece of wood to build the large boat.<\/li>\n<li>Uru making in Beypore is a centuries old tradition that was established since India began its maritime trade with Mesopotamia.<\/li>\n<li>Beypore is a town located on the banks of the Chaliyar River.<\/li>\n<li>According to records, Uru ships have been in high demand for around 2,000 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Khalasis:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Khalasis are the traditional artisans responsible for the manufacture of the Uru.<\/li>\n<li>They are the ones who launch these urus into the water, setting them ready for travel.<\/li>\n<li>Arab traders were especially enamoured of them, and were among the first major patrons of these vessels.<\/li>\n<li>It takes at least four years and the effort of over forty Khalasis to build an Uru.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What is a geographical indication?<\/strong><\/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:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/18423\/OPS\/GOSAKR29N.1.png?rev=2022-12-15T00:41:01+05:30&amp;cropFromPage=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beypore Uru is a wooden ship of Malabar teak handcrafted by skilled artisans &#038; carpenters in Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5944","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\/5944","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=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}