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Prakash Kumar documents the history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalization on a colonial industry in South Asia. Kumar discusses how the knowledge of indigo culture thrived among peasant traditions on the Indian subcontinent in the early modern period. Caribbean planters and French naturalists then developed and codified this knowledge into widely disseminated texts. European planters who began to settle in Bengal with the establishment of British rule
- Author
- Professor Prakash Kumar
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781139569200
- Subjects
- Science, History, Management
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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