What the indigo making in West Indies
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Answer:The ryots were reluctant to grow indigo because the price they got for the indigo they produced was very low. The planters insisted that indigo be cultivated on the best soils in which peasants preferred to cultivate rice.
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Explanation:
An intriguing and detailed story awaits the reader in Prakash Kumar’s Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India. As a narrative, the major thread to follow is that the production of indigo, Indigoferum tinctorium (today Indigofera tinctoria), in colonial Bengal (the predominant locus of discussion) is not to be considered as either derived solely from earlier practices in the country, be they from the west, north or south of the country, or as an experimental transplant from the West Indies, but as the result of complex interactions between colonial policies (including imitation with inflection among European potentates) and local practice.