. with the rise in demand for indigo the company tried by all names to expand indigo cultivation .discuss the consequences
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Explanation:
The tropical climate is good for indigo plantation. By the thirteenth century, Indian indigo was being used in Italy, France and Britain. But the price of indigo was very high and hence a small amount of Indian indigo could reach the European market.
Woad is another plant which is used for making violet and blue dyes. Wood is a plant of temperate zones and hence was easily available in Europe. Woad was grown in northern Italy, southern France and in parts of Germany and Britain. The woad producers in Europe were worried by the competition from indigo and hence pressurized their governments to ban the import of indigo.
But indigo was preferred by the cloth dyers. While indigo produced a rich blue colour, woad produced pale and dull blue. By the seventeenth century, European cloth producers pressurized their governments to relax the ban on indigo import.
Answer:
The demand for indigo increased in late -eighteenth-century Britain because of the expansion of cotton production as a result of industrialisation, which in turn created an enormous demand for cloth dyes.
The British expanded the areas under Indigo cultivation because this was used as a commercial crop more cultivation meant more produce which in turn make there profits large. The new plantation owners were European monopolistic indigo planters.
Thousands of ryots in Bengal refused to grow indigo in March 1859. The ryots refused to pay rents to the planters. ... The headmen were angry because they had been forced to sign indigo contract. Some zamindars were angry with the increasing power of the planters and at being forced to give them land on long leases