{"id":7803,"date":"2022-11-12T01:34:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T20:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7803"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:29:41","slug":"beypore-uru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/beypore-uru\/","title":{"rendered":"Beypore Uru"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Beypore Uru:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An uru is a wooden dhow, 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<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Khalasis:<\/strong><\/h3>\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<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/15183\/OPS\/G3KAGLS91.1.png?rev=2022-11-12T01:17:58+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 dhow(ship) handcrafted by skilled artisans and carpenters in Beypore, Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7803","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\/7803","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=7803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}