Question

short note on neel darpan ,opium and lathiyals. ​

Answer 1

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The play was essential to Nil Vidroha, better known as the Indigo Revolt of February–March 1859 in Bengal, when farmers refused to sow indigo in their fields to protest against exploitative farming under the British Raj.

Author: Dinabandhu Mitra

Original language: Bengali language

Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum

Lathiyals were strong men equipped with lathi or cane. They were retained by planters in Bengal during the 'Blue rebellion' in 1859 to assault the peasants who refused to pay rents and plant indigo.