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Ό OLD INDIGO PLANTATIONS To all who ever think about the way to govern Dependencies , the year 1860 ought to be memorable as the year of the Bengal Indigo Riots . It was three years after the Indian Mutiny , and Lord Canning— “ Clemency ...
Ό OLD INDIGO PLANTATIONS To all who ever think about the way to govern Dependencies , the year 1860 ought to be memorable as the year of the Bengal Indigo Riots . It was three years after the Indian Mutiny , and Lord Canning— “ Clemency ...
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The usual indigo factory stood by itself among indigo fields . Its chief feature was the open - air vat in which the dye was obtained as a sediment ; there were also sheds and appliances for drying the sediment and compressing it .
The usual indigo factory stood by itself among indigo fields . Its chief feature was the open - air vat in which the dye was obtained as a sediment ; there were also sheds and appliances for drying the sediment and compressing it .
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Once sown , the indigo would be tended and reaped , and then the grower would have practically no choice but to sell it to the planter at the planter's price ; for it was too bulky and too perishable to cart to a rival planter at a ...
Once sown , the indigo would be tended and reaped , and then the grower would have practically no choice but to sell it to the planter at the planter's price ; for it was too bulky and too perishable to cart to a rival planter at a ...
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