An historical memoir of the indigo industry of Bihar

Editor’s Note

Since graduating from Cambridge in 1900, Dr. Martin-Leake has had a distinguished career as an agricultural scientist in India, Egypt, Sudan, and Trinidad. In Trinidad he served as Principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (now the Agricultural Faculty of the University of the West Indies). His publications includeThe Foundations of Indian Agriculture (1923);Land Tenure and Agricultural Production in the Tropics (1927);Recent Advances in Agricultural Plant Breeding (with Dr. H. H. Hunter) (1933);Things not Generally Said (1949); and numerous papers in scientific journals. Dr. Martin-Leake’s account of indigo production in Bihar during the early years of this century is based on his personal experience as Biologist to the Bihar Indigo Planters Association from 1901 to 1904.