Indigo Revolt
English
Period1859–1860, Bengal Exam importanceHigh
A peasant uprising in Bengal (1859–60) against European planters who forced cultivators to grow indigo under exploitative, unprofitable contracts — significant as an early instance of organised peasant resistance and press/intellectual solidarity (including the play Nil Darpan).
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