Question

What did the peasants pay the British landlords as rent? What did the British now want instead and why?
किसान अंग्रेज जागीरदारों को किराये के रूप में क्या देते थे? अब इसकी जगह अंग्रेज क्या चाहते थे और क्यों?

Answer 1

Answer:

The peasants planted 15 per cent of their holdings with indigo. The entire indigo harvest was to be paid as rent to the landlords. in the meanwhile, the British landlords, learnt that Germany had developed synthetic indigo. So they obtained agreements from the sharecroppers to pay them the compensation for the 15 per cent arrangement. It was because the price of natural indigo would fall with the arrival of synthetic indigo. It will diminish or block the demand of the indigo.