What was the alternative used in Europe instead of the cultivation of indigo ?

Cotton

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Silk

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Woad

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None of the above

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The correct option is C Woad
Due to the high price of Indigo in the European market, the European cloth manufacturers had to depend on another plant called Woad to make violet and blue dyes. Being a plant of the temperate zones, woad was more easily available in Europe.

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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 ____________.

(d) The Champaran movement was against ______________.

what was indigo cultivation? y were peasants not willing to expand the area under indigo cultivation

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