Changes in India after blue rebellion
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The Blue Rebellion, also known as the Indigo Rebellion, was a rebellion of field workers against planters (the British). They refused to cultivate the cash crops of Indigo tintoria, a type of indigo plant used to create blue dyes. Indigo processing factories and storage areas were the targets of attacks and the field workers refused to pay rent to the British planters. Many of the planters left, fearful of their own safety.
One of the reasons they rebelled was because they were not allowed to grow food crops and were required to grow indigo; the British would then have them take out loans to pay for the indigo they were planting, at exorbitant rates, forcing them into debt. The rebellion was quelled by the British and their Indian allies, resulting in the death of many. There was a lot of sympathy for the laborers' cause, and an Indigo Commission was appointed by the government to investigate all that went into the cultivation of indigo.