Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930
Subtitle: A Global Perspective
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9789004311541
Subjects: Dyes and dyeing; India, politics and government
Description: “In The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930: A Global Perspective, Ghulam A. Nadri explores the dynamics of the indigo industry and trade from a long-term perspective and examines the local and global forces that affected the potentialities of production in India and elsewhere and caused periods of boom and slump in the industry. Using the commodity chains conceptual framework he examines the stages in the trajectory of indigo from production to consumption. Nadri shows convincingly that the growth or decline in indigo production and trade in India was a part of the global processes of production, trade, and consumption and that indigo as a global commodity was embedded in the politics of empire and colonial expansion.”—Provided by publisher.