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Author Nadri, Ghulam A., author

Title The political economy of indigo in India, 1580-1930 : a global perspective / by Ghulam A. Nadri
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 246 pages)
Series European expansion and Indigenous response, 1873-8974 ; volume 22
European expansion and indigenous response ; v. 22.
Contents General editor's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The making of indigo : cultivation and manufacture -- From manufactory to market : logistics and commerce -- The indigo trade : local and global demand -- The making of the world market : indigo commodity chains -- The political economy of indigo : states, merchants, and producers -- Conclusions -- Appendices
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 14, 2016)
Subject Indigo industry -- India -- History
Dyes and dyeing -- India -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Dyes and dyeing
Indigo industry
Politics and government
SUBJECT India -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064936
Subject India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016016816
ISBN 9789004311558
9004311556