Kautilya

Kaipad Rice — The Grain of Kerala’s Tidal Fields

Kaipad Rice received Geographical Indication protection in 2014, recognising both the distinctive grain produced in these fields and the traditional agricultural ecosystem from which it originates. Its identity depends less upon a single rice cultivar than upon the relationship between salt-tolerant rice varieties, tidal water, monsoon rainfall, wetland soils and the traditional farming knowledge of North Kerala.

Kamarupa — The Historic Kingdom of the Brahmaputra Valley and the Eastern Himalayas

Kamarupa, by contrast, appears securely as a political name in historical inscriptions from around the fourth century CE. Banglapedia notes that the Mahabharata mentions Pragjyotisha but not Kamarupa and identifies the Allahabad Pillar inscription of Samudragupta as one of the earliest firm historical references to Kamarupa as a northeastern frontier kingdom.