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Indian Yellow | This expensive dye was produced from the urine of cows fed exclusively on mango leaves. The animals died early from malnutrition and when this was taken up as an issue by Hindu cow protection societies, the British colonialists saw it was a threat and put a stop to production.
1917 | As he admitted, Mahatma Gandhi had never seen a spinning wheel in his life, even though he had chosen it as the symbol of the Indian independence movement. It took the ‘enterprising widow’ Gangaben Mujmuder to make it practical.
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