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Live discussion session at 11:30 am today
Live discussion session at 11:30 am today
*🛡️Indigo Revolt (1859-60)*
♟️In Bengal the European indigo planters forced the local peasants to grow indigo instead of high yielding crops.
♟️The revolt was led by Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Biswas of Nadia district, West Bengal.
♟️The peasants joined together and raised funds to fight court cases filed against them, and they initiated legal action on their own against the planters.
♟️They also used the weapon of social boycott to force a planter’s servants to leave him.
♟️The Government appointed an indigo commission to inquire into the problem of indigo
cultivation.
♟️In 1860, government issued a notification that ryots could not be compelled to grow indigo, and its cultivation wiped out by 1860 from Bengal.
♟️A major reason for the success of the Indigo Revolt was the tremendous initiative, cooperation, organization and discipline of the ryots. Another was the unity among Hindu and Muslim
peasants.
♟️Leadership for the movement was provided by the more well-off ryots and in some cases by petty zamindars, moneylenders and ex-employees of the planters.
♟️The revolt was also supported by Bengali intelligentsia.
♟️Outstanding in this respect was the role of Harish Chandra Mukherji, editor of the Hindoo Patriot.
♟️Din Bandhu Mitra’s play, Neel Darpan, was to gain great fame for vividly portraying the oppression by the planters.
♟️The intelligentsia’s role in the Indigo Revolt was to have an abiding impact on the emerging nationalist intellectuals.
♟️Missionaries were another group which extended active support to the indigo ryots in their struggle.
♟️In Bengal the European indigo planters forced the local peasants to grow indigo instead of high yielding crops.
♟️The revolt was led by Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Biswas of Nadia district, West Bengal.
♟️The peasants joined together and raised funds to fight court cases filed against them, and they initiated legal action on their own against the planters.
♟️They also used the weapon of social boycott to force a planter’s servants to leave him.
♟️The Government appointed an indigo commission to inquire into the problem of indigo
cultivation.
♟️In 1860, government issued a notification that ryots could not be compelled to grow indigo, and its cultivation wiped out by 1860 from Bengal.
♟️A major reason for the success of the Indigo Revolt was the tremendous initiative, cooperation, organization and discipline of the ryots. Another was the unity among Hindu and Muslim
peasants.
♟️Leadership for the movement was provided by the more well-off ryots and in some cases by petty zamindars, moneylenders and ex-employees of the planters.
♟️The revolt was also supported by Bengali intelligentsia.
♟️Outstanding in this respect was the role of Harish Chandra Mukherji, editor of the Hindoo Patriot.
♟️Din Bandhu Mitra’s play, Neel Darpan, was to gain great fame for vividly portraying the oppression by the planters.
♟️The intelligentsia’s role in the Indigo Revolt was to have an abiding impact on the emerging nationalist intellectuals.
♟️Missionaries were another group which extended active support to the indigo ryots in their struggle.