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To find a syntheticand cheap replacement for shellac, which was a high-in-demand and increasingly expensive natural resin (produced by the lac-insect kerria lacca) in the 19th and early decades of the 20th century. The production of shellac depended on complex factors of climate and forest economies in India, which were made more complicated by the colonial situation and long distance of travel from the product's origin.

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