![]() ![]() īy the middle of the 20th century, beedi manufacture had grown into a highly competitive industry. Muslim leaders, calling cigarettes foreign products, have also endorsed beedies at times. ![]() Perhaps due to this, educated classes in India grew to prefer beedies to cigarettes although this is no longer the case. The commercial Indian beedi industry saw rapid growth during the 1930s probably driven by an expansion of tobacco cultivation at the time but also helped by Gandhi's support of Indian industry and Indian products. Tobacco workers were the first to create them by taking leftover tobacco and rolling it in leaves. Beedies were invented after Indian tobacco cultivation began in the late 17th century.
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