Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited

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Its oil is registered as the Geographical Indication “Mysore Sandalwood Oil”, distilled at Mysore and Shimoga.

The record

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Name

Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited

documented

Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited, (A Government of Karnataka Enterprise)

GI-29 · Geographical Indications Registry, application 29 · read 2026-10-08

confidence A

Kind

producer of naturals

house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the grouping on /houses: what the firm was chiefly known for in the sources read

confidence B

Founded

May 1916 (month)

documented

The factory started work in May 1916

MYSORE-GAZ-1929 · Mysore Gazetteer, compiled for Government, Vol · read 2026-10-08
KSDL-ABOUT-2012 · Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited · read 2026-10-08

as the Government Sandalwood Oil Factory

confidence A

Founders

• the Government of Mysore: Maharaja Krishna Raja Wodeyar IV and his Diwan, M. Visvesvaraya
  documented

  The Government Sandalwood Oil factory was established by the Maharaja of Mysore His Highness Nalwadi Krishna Raja Wodeyar and Diwan Sir, M. Visvesvaraya

  KSDL-ABOUT-2012 · Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

Places

• Bangalore, north of the city, near the Indian Institute of Science (1916) (founded in)
  documented

  site for the factory was found to the noith of Bangalore City, not far away from the Indian Institute of Science

  MYSORE-GAZ-1929 · Mysore Gazetteer, compiled for Government, Vol · read 2026-10-08

  “noith” is the OCR of “north”

  confidence B

• Mysore, a second factory (works)
  documented

  A second factory having an ultimate capacity of 20,000 lbs of oil per month was started in Mysore

  MYSORE-GAZ-1929 · Mysore Gazetteer, compiled for Government, Vol · read 2026-10-08

  the sentence ends “in 1917”

  confidence B

• Shimoga, a sandalwood-oil plant (1944) (works)
  documented

  The second Sandalwood Oil extraction plant was started in Shimoga.

  KSDL-ABOUT-2012 · Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

Documented work

• sandalwood oil · registered as the Geographical Indication “Mysore Sandalwood Oil”, with the company as applicant
  documented

  Sandalwood Oil Division Mysore, Karnataka State – India & Sandalwood Oil Division, Shimoga, Karnataka State, India.

  GI-29 · Geographical Indications Registry, application 29 · read 2026-10-08

  confidence A

What it became

• renamed Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited, a public-sector company incorporated on 9 July 1980
  documented

  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.

  KSDL-ABOUT-2012 · Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

Today

a Government of Karnataka enterprise, applicant of the sandalwood-oil Geographical Indication (registry read 2026-10-08) (checked 2026-10-08)

documented

Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited, (A Government of Karnataka Enterprise)

GI-29 · Geographical Indications Registry, application 29 · read 2026-10-08

confidence A

Wikidata

Q96385420

documented

"qid": "Q96385420"

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited)

confidence A

Where the sources disagree

• 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. (MYSORE-GAZ-1929, KSDL-ABOUT-2012)

Sources

1. GI-29 · Geographical Indications Registry, application 29: Mysore Sandalwood Oil. Intellectual Property India (Government of India). search.ipindia.gov.in/GIRPublicSearch/Applicatio… · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (quoted, not reproduced)
2. KSDL-ABOUT-2012 · Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited. “About Us — Karnataka Soaps & Detergents Limited (mysoresandal.co.in, Internet Archive Wayback Machine copy of 19 March 2012; the live site no longer serves it)”, the company’s own account. web.archive.org/web/20120319104703id_/http://www… · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (quoted, not reproduced)
3. MYSORE-GAZ-1929 · Mysore Gazetteer, compiled for Government, Vol. III (Economic), ed. C. Hayavadana Rao (Bangalore: The Government Press, 1929) — OCR text. Government of Mysore (1929); digitised by the Digital Library of India, hosted by the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61932 · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated on the item (1929 government publication; item metadata: dc.rights: Copyright Permitted) (quoted, not reproduced)
4. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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