Question

What were the similarities and differences between the lives of workers in tea/coffee plantations and indigo plantations?

Answer 1

On both tea and indigo plantations, workers were paid low wages, exploited and were forced to live under squalid conditions. There were no housing facilities or medical care on the plantations. The only difference between the two workers was is that tea plantation workers were under a planter contract, that allowed a relationship similar to indentured servitude to exist.

Answer 2

There are many similarities and differences between the lives of workers in tea, coffee, and indigo plantations.

Similarities:

The tea coffee and Indigo plantation workers had to work hard to grow more product but in terms of profits, they get nothing as the whole profit was taken by the owners.  

Differences:

The tea and coffee workers were bound under the indentured labor system. There were two types of indentured labor system: Arkatti and Sardari.  

But on the other side, the plantation labor of indigo was not bound under any indentured system.