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Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India (Hardcover, New)
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Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India (Hardcover, New)
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Prakash Kumar documents the history of agricultural indigo,
exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalisation on this
colonial industry. Charting the indigo culture from the early
modern period to the twentieth century, Kumar discusses how
knowledge of indigo culture thrived among peasant traditions on the
Indian subcontinent in the early modern period and was then
developed by Caribbean planters and French naturalists who codified
this knowledge into widely disseminated texts. European planters
who settled in Bengal with the establishment of British rule in the
late eighteenth century drew on this information. From the
nineteenth century, indigo culture became more modern,
science-based and expert driven, and with the advent of a cheaper,
purer synthetic indigo in 1897, indigo science crossed paths with
the colonial state's effort to develop a science for agricultural
development. Only at the end of the First World War, when the
industrial use of synthetic indigo for textile dyeing and printing
became almost universal, did the indigo industry's optimism fade
away.
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