ABSTRACT
The Geographical Indications confirm that place matters because place gathers. Place is a receptacle where the physical and human, tangible and intangible, the diverse and the intense, the experiences and emotions come together. The nurturing of place goods is not confined to a particular site or situation, latitude or altitude, cultural or income groups. There are goods like the Pokkali rice in the backwaters of Kerala, Pashmina shawls and Darjeeling tea in the Himalayas and the Bikaneri bhujia that hail from the Thar desert. Place sediments time and place goods mirror and capture changing India. The Bobbili veena, Nagercoil jewellery, Tirupathi laddu and the umpteen varieties of sarees are symbolic of the ancient, traditional and the temple era; the Bidriware, Lucknow chikkan, Firozabad glassware, Hyderabad haleem are iconic reminders of the legacy of the Mughals, while the tea and coffee plantations remind us of the colonial investment with place.
