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'''Baba Budan''' was a 16th-century [[Sufism|Sufi]], revered by both Muslims and Hindus, whose shrine is at [[Bababudangiri shrine|Baba Budangiri]], Chikkamagalur, [[Karnataka]], [[India]]. He is said to have introduced the coffee plant to India by bringing seven raw beans from the port of [[Mocha, Yemen]] while coming back from Hajj. In those days coffee was exported to other parts of the world in roasted or baked form so that no one could grow their own and were forced to buy from the Yemenis. He brought seven beans because the number 7 is considered sacred in Islam. The coffee plants were then raised at the place that bears his name.<br />
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Popular Indian lore says that on a pilgrimage to Mecca in the 16th century Baba Budan, a revered Sufi saint from Karnataka state, discovered for himself the wonders of coffee. In his eagerness to grow coffee himself at home, he smuggled seven coffee beans out of the Yemeni port of Mocha which were hidden in his beard . On his return home, he planted the beans on the slopes of the Chandragiri Hills in Chikkamagaluru district, [[Karnataka|Mysore State (present day Karnataka)]]. This hill range was later named after him as the [[Baba Budangiri|Baba Budan Hills (Baba Budangiri)]], where his tomb can be visited by taking a short trip from [[Chikmagalur]].<br />
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==References==<br />
* ''[[Coffee: A Dark History]]'' by Antony Wild. New York: Fourth Estate Press, 2004. {{ISBN|1-84115-649-3}}<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101120215459/http://www.chickmagalur.nic.in/htmls/tour_bbgiri.htm District: Chickmagalur – State: Karnataka]<br />
*[[Mark Pendergrast|Pendergrast, Mark]], ''Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World,'' (New York: Basic Book, 1999).<br />
* Bhattacharya, Bhaswati. ''[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0376983614521734 Local History of a Global Commodity: Production of Coffee in Mysore and Coorg in the Nineteenth Century.]'' Indian Historical Review 41, no. 1 (2014): 67-86.<br />
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