Question

Fill in the blanks:

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

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

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

(d) The Champaran movement was against __________.

Answer 1

(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 indigo planters.