Which were two different methods to grow
indigo in India? Explain more about ryoti in
detail?
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Answer:
Under the ryoti system, the planters forced the ryots to sign a contract, an agreement (satta). At times they pressurized the village headmen to sign the contract on behalf of the ryots. The planter provided the seed and the drill, while the cultivators prepared the soil, sowed the seed and looked after the crop.
The two main systems of indigo cultivation in India were - nij and ryoti. In the former, the planter cultivated indigo in the lands that he himself owned or
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Explanation:
The two main systems of indigo cultivation in India were - nij and ryoti. In the former, the planter cultivated indigo in the lands that he himself owned or rented.
By the end of the eighteenth century, the existing supplies of indigo from the West Indies and America collapsed for a variety of reasons. So, the demand for Indian indigo increased in the markets of west.
Cloth dyers in Britain now desperately looked for new sources of indigo supply. The British realised that the countryside could also grow the crops that Europe required.
By the late eighteenth century the Company was trying its best to expand the cultivation of opium and indigo.
The British persuaded or forced cultivators in various parts of India to produce other crops: jute in Bengal, tea in Assam, sugarcane in the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), wheat in Punjab, cotton in Maharashtra and Punjab, rice in Madras.