what were the reason of Indigo revolt
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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.