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 "type": "House",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
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  "GI-29",
  "KSDL-ABOUT-2012",
  "MYSORE-GAZ-1929",
  "WD-1"
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 "name": {
  "value": "Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GI-29",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GI-29.txt:7",
  "quote": "Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited, (A Government of Karnataka Enterprise)",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "record_names": [
  "Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited",
  "Government Sandalwood Oil Factory"
 ],
 "kind": "producer of naturals",
 "founded": {
  "value": "May 1916",
  "precision": "month",
  "year": 1916,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "MYSORE-GAZ-1929",
  "sources": [
   "KSDL-ABOUT-2012"
  ],
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/MYSORE-GAZ-1929.txt:7",
  "quote": "The factory started work in May 1916",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "as the Government Sandalwood Oil Factory"
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 "founders": [
  {
   "name": "the Government of Mysore: Maharaja Krishna Raja Wodeyar IV and his Diwan, M. Visvesvaraya",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "KSDL-ABOUT-2012",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/KSDL-ABOUT-2012.txt:8",
   "quote": "The Government Sandalwood Oil factory was established by the Maharaja of Mysore His Highness Nalwadi Krishna Raja Wodeyar and Diwan Sir, M. Visvesvaraya",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "places": [
  {
   "place": "Bangalore, north of the city, near the Indian Institute of Science (1916)",
   "role": "founded in",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "MYSORE-GAZ-1929",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/MYSORE-GAZ-1929.txt:8",
   "quote": "site for the factory was found to the noith of Bangalore City, not far away from the Indian Institute of Science",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "“noith” is the OCR of “north”"
  },
  {
   "place": "Mysore, a second factory",
   "role": "works",
   "origin": "mysore-in",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "MYSORE-GAZ-1929",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/MYSORE-GAZ-1929.txt:9",
   "quote": "A second factory having an ultimate capacity of 20,000 lbs of oil per month was started in Mysore",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "the sentence ends “in 1917”"
  },
  {
   "place": "Shimoga, a sandalwood-oil plant (1944)",
   "role": "works",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "KSDL-ABOUT-2012",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/KSDL-ABOUT-2012.txt:9",
   "quote": "The second Sandalwood Oil extraction plant was started in Shimoga.",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "notable": [
  {
   "what": "registered as the Geographical Indication “Mysore Sandalwood Oil”, with the company as applicant",
   "material": "sandalwood-oil",
   "origin": "mysore-in",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GI-29",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GI-29.txt:8",
   "quote": "Sandalwood Oil Division Mysore, Karnataka State – India & Sandalwood Oil Division, Shimoga, Karnataka State, India.",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "lineage": [
  {
   "relation": "renamed",
   "name": "Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited, a public-sector company incorporated on 9 July 1980",
   "year": 1980,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "KSDL-ABOUT-2012",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/KSDL-ABOUT-2012.txt:10",
   "quote": "Government Soap Factory was converted into a Public Sector Enterprise and the Company incorporated on 9th July 1980 and re-named as KARNATAKA SOAPS & DETERGENTS LIMITED.",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "status": {
  "value": "a Government of Karnataka enterprise, applicant of the sandalwood-oil Geographical Indication (registry read 2026-10-08)",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GI-29",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GI-29.txt:7",
  "quote": "Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited, (A Government of Karnataka Enterprise)",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "Where it began: the Mysore Gazetteer of 1929 puts the 1916 factory north of Bangalore and a second at Mysore; the company’s own account says it was set up in 1916 at Mysore and calls the Shimoga plant of 1944 the second.",
   "sources": [
    "MYSORE-GAZ-1929",
    "KSDL-ABOUT-2012"
   ]
  }
 ],
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 "copy": {
  "lede": "The state sandalwood-oil works of the Mysore government, started in May 1916 as the Government Sandalwood Oil Factory and run today as Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited, a Government of Karnataka enterprise.",
  "body": [
   "Its oil is registered as the Geographical Indication “Mysore Sandalwood Oil”, distilled at Mysore and Shimoga."
  ]
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   "CC0",
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  "single_source": null,
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  "value": "Q96385420",
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  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/wikidata/Q96385420.json:2",
  "quote": "\"qid\": \"Q96385420\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited)"
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