Question

After bengal indigo cultivation shifted to which place

Answer 1

Indigo Planters forced raiyats (cultivators) to produce indigo for the world market. India produced and exported indigo from time immemorial. Western India was the centre of the indigo cultivation. Subsequently, in the 17th and 18th centuries, West Indies and America produced superior quality of indigo. When the indigo planters of these areas switched to more profitable crops in the later part of the 18th century, the growing cloth industry in England had to look for an alternative source for indigo. The stabilisation of the east india company's political power in Bengal combined with appropriate climate and cheap labour, made some Bengal districts highly suitable for indigo production.

Settled in Chandernagar, Frenchman Louis Bonnard was the first European planter to enter Bengal in 1777. Carel Blume, another early planter, had erected his factory in 1779, twenty-five miles from Calcutta, somewhere in hughli. In a letter to the Governor-General-in-Council on 12 July 1787, Blume mentioned that he had tried as early as 1778 to cultivate indigo in order to improve agriculture and create a new commodity for commerce. That was exactly what the company's government wanted. Due to massive destruction of manufacturing industry and agriculture, following the company's occupation of Bengal, the economy of the country was in ruin.

Thus, an extensive cultivation of cash crops was considered essential for reviving Bengal's economy. Moreover, to enable the company's servants and private traders to transfer their personal funds from India to England, export commodities were needed for sale in Europe. The company decided to encourage the cultivation of indigo in Bengal. It would be produced by the subsistence rayats under conditions of the merchants. The East India Company had earlier entered into contracts with a number of private traders who, instead of setting up factories, supplied the company with indigo from Agra and Oudh at an exorbitant price. In 1788, the company terminated the contracts and decided to support the European planters who were attempting to cultivate indigo in Bengal.

Answer 2

Answer:

Bihar was the place in India after Bengal