Question: What year saw the country where India was forced to purchase cotton from instead of producing fabrics, take control of the country where the most Australopithecus fossils have been found?

the earliest evidence of cotton use in south asia has been found at the site of mehrgarh, pakistan, where cotton threads have been found preserved in copper beads; these finds have been dated to neolithic (between 6000 and 5000 bce). cotton cultivation in the region is dated to the indus valley civilization, which covered parts of modern eastern pakistan and northwestern india between 3300 and 1300 bce the indus cotton industry was well-developed and some methods used in cotton spinning and fabrication continued to be used until the industrialization of india. between 2000 and 1000 bc cotton became widespread across much of india. for example, it has been found at the site of hallus in karnataka dating from around 1000 bc. <SEP> It is now called ``Little Foot ''and it is probably around three million years old. It was named Australopithecus prometheus which has since been placed within A. africanus. Other fossil remains found in the same cave in 2008 were named Australopithecus sediba, which lived 1.9 million years ago. Then, in 1997, an almost complete Australopithecus skeleton with skull was found in the Sterkfontein caves of Gauteng, South Africa. A. africanus probably evolved into A. sediba, which some scientists think may have evolved into H. erectus, though this is heavily disputed. <SEP> the indroda dinosaur and fossil park in ahmedabad in the state of gujarat, india, is a park which houses the fossilized remains and the petrified eggs of the dinosaurs. it is technically a man made fossil park and not the actual nesting grounds where the dinosaurs lived. the eggs and fossils on display here are actually from the world's 3rd largest dinosaur fossil excavation site and 2nd largest hatchery located at raiyoli, balasinor, gujarat. the park was set up by the geological survey of india and is the only dinosaur museum in the country. <SEP> The country became a self - governing nation state within the British Empire, in 1934 following enactment of the Status of the Union Act. The dominion came to an end on 31 May 1961 as the consequence of a 1960 referendum, which legitimised the country becoming a sovereign state named Republic of South Africa. A republican constitution was adopted. Following the defeat of the Boers in the Anglo - Boer or South African War (1899 -- 1902), the Union of South Africa was created as a dominion of the British Empire in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Natal Colony, Transvaal Colony, and Orange River Colony. <SEP> India's cotton-processing sector gradually declined during British expansion in India and the establishment of colonial rule during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Indian markets were increasingly forced to supply only raw cotton and, by British-imposed law, to purchase manufactured textiles from Britain. This was largely due to aggressive colonialist mercantile policies of the British East India Company, which made cotton processing and manufacturing workshops in India uncompetitive. [citation needed]