When the British lost their American colonies, they had to look elsewhere for indigo and cotton plantations. Their attention was drawn to Bengal, where a Frenchman named Louis Bonnaud had established ...

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 marked Gandhi’s first major movement in India. In today’s Knowledge Nugget traces the causes ...

They established vast indigo plantations in Guatemala ... After the British lost the American colonies, they turned to India for indigo cultivation. By the late 1800’s the entire market crashed due to ...