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Why the demand for Indian indigo increased in colonial time?

The demand for Indian indigo increased in colonial time because:

• The cloth manufacturers and dyers of the European countries such as Italy, France and Britain used Indigo for dying clothes.


• Indian Indigo produced rich blue colour.


• When the cotton production increased in Britain, there was the increased demand for cloth dyes.


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