Question

causes of indigo rebellion

Answer 1

1.Farmers were illegally beaten up, detained in order to force them to sell Neel      at non-profitable rates.
2.If any farmer refused to grow Indigo and started growing rice, he was        kidnapped, women and children were attacked, and crop was looted, burnt and destroyed.
3.European Indigo planters had a monopoly over Indigo farming. The foreigners used to force Indian farmers to harvest Neel and to achieve their means they used to brutally suppress the farmer.
4.If farmer approached court, the European judge would rule in favour of the European planter.
5.Government rules favoured the planters. By an act in 1833, the planters were granted a free hand in oppression. Sometimes even the zamindars, money lenders and other influential persons sided with the planters.
6.Finally Indigo peasants launched revolt in Nadia district of Bengal presidency. Refused to grow Indigo. If police tried to intervene, they were attacked. European Planters responded by increasing the rent and evicting farmers. Led to more agitations and confrontations.

Answer 2

After the Indigo Rebellion

The Indigo Commission's report made the conditions of the peasants slightly better, but the plantation still existed. It was only after Mahatma Gandhi visited Champaran in 1917, that the Champaran Movement against the indigo planters produced fruitful results.