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Indigo cultivation in India declined by the beginning of the 20th century because of
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PRELIMS 2020 · MODERN HISTORY
Indigo cultivation in India declined by the beginning of the 20th century because of Sele…
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• Indigo declined because synthetic dyes (von Baeyer, Germany) made natural indigo uncompetitive globally.
• Peasant resistance (Nil Bidroho) and Gandhi's Champaran Satyagraha were responses to planter oppression, not primary causes of decline.
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