Cultivation of Naturally Coloured Cotton in India in the 19th Century

The demand for naturally-coloured cotton went high and had its preference over artificially coloured cotton in the 19^th century India. This is due to artificially coloured cotton’s allergic effects on the skin, the effect of artificial dyes on the health of the workers, and the chemical dye factories’ role in the pollution of environment. The disadvantage of naturally-coloured cotton is that it has a limited number of shades – brown, green, red, yellow etc. Sometimes its colour fade in the sunlight, whereas artificial dyes give an unimaginable range of shades of different colours.