Why were Indian farmers unwilling to grow indigo?
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Explanation:
Of course! There are many reasons why that was the case, some of which I am going to list for you in the following way -
Although Indigo cultivation for dying and colouring purposes had been practiced in the subcontinent for thousands of years, it had never been done in as pathetically oppressive a manner as it happened under British rule. As indigo plantation became an extremely profitable venture in the 17th and 18th centuries due to high demands from Europe, planters pursued more and more farmers to grow indigo instead of food crops, and the loans that they gave to those farmers for this purpose came at such a high interest rate that the loans taken by many farmers carried on to their next generations after their death.
The price that the farmers were paid for their crops was as low as 2.5 % of the actual market price of their produce, meaning that the farmers never profited from their work. They were pushed endlessly into a debt that they could rarely ever pay off within their lifetimes.
The farmers were totally unprotected from the indigo planters, who resorted to mortgages or destruction of their property if they were unwilling to obey them. Government rules favoured the planters. By an act in 1833, the planters were granted a free hand in oppression. Even the money lenders and other influential persons sided with the planters. Out of the severe oppression unleashed on them the farmers resorted to revolt, which culminated in the Indigo Revolt of 1859.
Even after this revolt succeeded, there was no serious improvement in the living conditions of indigo farmers, as we know from the book “Gandhi” by Louis Fischer.
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Explanation:
Farmer don't want grow indigo because it can lose the fertility of soil.
Once when indigo is grown in a land the soil loses it fertility.