Question

What is indigo revolt??

Answer 1

The Indigo revolt (or Nilbidroha) was a peasant movement and it resulted in the subsequent revolt of indigo farmers against the indigo planters that arose in Bengal in the year 1859

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

Indigo Revolt (1859-60)

The Bengal indigo cultivators strike was the

most militant and widespread peasant uprisings.

The European indigo planters compelled the

tenant farmers to grow indigo at terms highly

disadvantageous to the farmers. The tenant

farmer was forced to sell it cheap to the planter

and accepted advances from the planter that

benefitted the latter. There were also cases of

kidnapping, looting, flogging and burning.

Led by Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Charan

Biswas, the ryots of Nadia district gave up

indigo cultivation in September 1859. Factories

were burnt down and the revolt spread. To

take control of the situation, the Government

set up an indigo commission in 1860 whose

recommendations formed part of the Act VI of

1862. The indigo planters of Bengal, however,

moved on to settle in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

The newspaper, Hindu Patriot brought to light

the misery of the cultivators several times.

Dinabandhu Mitra wrote a drama, Nil-Darpan,

in Bengali with a view to draw the attention

of the people and the government towards the

misery of the indigo-cultivators.