UPSC PYQPrelims 2020

Civil Services Examination · प्रश्न 33

Indigo cultivation in India declined by the beginning of the 20th century because of

  1. peasant resistance to the oppressive conduct of planters
  2. its unprofitability in the world market because of new inventions
  3. national leaders' opposition to the cultivation of indigo
  4. Government control over the planters
उत्तर दाखवा आणि स्पष्टीकरण

उत्तर: (B) its unprofitability in the world market because of new inventions

स्पष्टीकरण

The invention of synthetic indigo (Germany, late 1890s) made natural indigo unprofitable.