Facing Competition: The History of Indigo Experiments in Colonial India, 1897-1920

The purpose of this dissertation is to describe in detail the efforts made to protect natural indigo the blue dyestuff extracted from the leaves of the indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria) - against the market competition of cheaper and purer synthetic indigo - which was derived from coal-tar hydroc...

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Main Author: Kumar, Prakash
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7627