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(a) Growers of woad in Europe saw ___________ as a crop which would provide competition to their earnings.

(b) The demand for indigo increased in the late-eighteenth-century Britain because of ____________.

(c) The international demand for indigo was affected by the discovery of ___________.

(d) The Champaran movement was against ______________.

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(a)Growers of woad in Europe saw indigo as a crop which would provide competition to their earnings.

(b) The demand for indigo increased in the late-eighteenth-century Britain because of the expansion of cotton production as a result of industrialisation, which in turn created an enormous demand for cloth dyes.

(c)The international demand for indigo was affected by the discovery of synthetic dyes.

(d)The Champaran movement was against the indigo planters.


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