Indigo Planting in India
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A illustrated magazine article from 1900 describing indigo cultivation and manufacture in India, mainly in the Behar district. It covers the planters' and managers' roles, preparing and sowing the fields, harvesting, steeping and beating the vats, and pressing and cutting the paste into cakes. It ends with the Calcutta market, prices, exports, and competition from artificial indigo.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1900
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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