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Nil Bidroho. Date: 1859 - 1860. Location: Bengal. India. Indigo Revolt, rebellion of peasant farmers in 1859–60 in the Bengal region of northeastern India against British indigo planters. The need for indigo, an important source of indigo dye, to feed the British cotton textile industry—whose tremendous growth had been spurred by the ...
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India was known for its cotton textiles through the Middle Ages, and by the mid-16th century Gujarat in northwest India was major a source of indigo, the deep blue-violet dye used to colour cotton and other materials. Indigo was in high demand by the European trading companies, including the British East India Company(EIC) which made large profits ...
Indigo plantation owners, many of whom had experience of running plantations in the West Indies, were one of the few categories of settlers the East India Company allowed into its territory in India. This was because the agricultural land was already densely populated but indigo was such a lucrative trade that indigo investors became an exception. ...
Trouble in the indigo industry began in the mid-19th century when there was a global economic slump which caused the price to plummet. To recoup money lost on contracts, the small-scale cultivators of indigo were now squeezed into producing dye material as they had always done, but at 30-50% of the market price. In addition, middlemen who collected...
The authorities eventually quashed the riots, and an Indigo Inquiry Commission was established to investigate the failings of the industry. The Bengalese did not forget. Dinabandhu Mitra (1830-1873), a Bengalese postmaster and railway inspector, wrote a play in 1860 based on the 'Blue Mutiny', his Nil Darpan ('The Blue Mirror'). This play was a gre...
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Jun 24, 2014 · Students of history may consider the Indigo Rebellion (1859-61) an appendix to the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, which resulted in the nearly a century-old rule of the East India Company losing power to ...
BOOK REVIEWS Blair B. Kling: The Blue Mutiny, The Indigo Disturbances in Bengal, 1859-1862 (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966) pp. 243 with frontispiece map. Dr. Kling has written a sympathetic and perceptive book. It is about Bengal in the mid-nineteenth century. For once, an American historian has not copied th:: British imperial historians, but has followed the path of ...
The Indigo revolt, also known as the Nil Bidroha, was a peasant movement against the exploitative practices of British indigo planters in Bengal from 1859-1860. Thousands of farmers refused to grow indigo and attacked indigo factories in protest. The revolt spread across Bengal and forced the British colonial government to investigate and eventually prohibit the coercive indigo cultivation system.
Aug 1, 2017 · The Indigo Rebellion (Neel Bidroho) took place in Bengal in 1859-60 and was a revolt by the farmers against British planters who had forced them to grow indigo under terms that were greatly unfavourable to the farmers. Indigo Rebellion (UPSC Notes):- Download PDF Here.
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Mar 21, 2023 · By. Dr. Habib Siddiqui. When Bengal was colonized by the East India Company in the second half of the 18 th century, it was the richest jewel on the British crown. Bengal by then had been ruled ...
