It was World War I that made sandalwood the toast of Kar nataka. Shipping goods, especially sandalwood logs from India, had become a tough task for French, German and English traders. Karnataka's dense forests had an abundance of sandalwood trees and logs were being dumped everywhere, unpicked by the foreign rulers. The glut came at a time when the sandalwood market was booming. In 1911-12, 2,663 tonnes of sandalwood...
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