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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Georgia Institute of Technology
2006
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7627 |