short note on peasant movement
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Peasant movement in India was arose during the British colonial period, when economic policies characterized in the ruin of traditional handicrafts leading, change of ownership and overcrowding of land, and massive debt and impoverishment of peasantry.
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The Indigo Revolt (1859-60):
It was directed against European planters who exploited the local peasants by forcing them to take advances and sign fraudulent contracts according to which the peasants were compelled to grow Indigo, rather than the more profitable rice.
These foreigners intimidated the peasants through illegal confinements and other such atrocities.
The Indigo revolt in Nadia district of Bengal in 1859 and was led by Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Biswas who organised the peasants to resist the force of planter’s lathiyals (armed retainers).
This revolt has been vividly portrayed by acclaimed writer Din Bandhu Mitra in his play, Neel Darpan. Its publication in 1860 led to the appointment of an Indigo Commission by the government.