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Question
What was the cause of Indigo Revolt in 1859 – 60?
Solution
- The European indigo planters compelled the tenant farmers to grow indigo in terms highly disadvantageous to the farmers.
- The tenant farmer was forced to sell it cheap to the planter and accepted advances from the planter that benefitted the latter.
- There were also cases of kidnapping, looting, flogging, and burning.
- Led by Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Charan Biswas, the ryots of the Nadia district gave up indigo cultivation in September 1859.
- Factories were burnt down and the revolt spread.
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