Question

why did the british encourage the culrivation of indigo

Answer 1

British encouraged the cultivation of indigo because to make dyes for printing designs on the clothes which they produced in Britain

Answer 2

with expansion of british power in Nawabate in Bengal,indigo painting became more and more commercially profitable because of the demand of blue dye in Europe. the indigo painters persuaded to plant indigo instead of food crops.they provided loans called dadons,at a very high interest.at that time slash and burn cultivation was followed.