<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Indigo revolt (or Nil vidroha) was a peasant movement and subsequent uprising of indigo farmers against the indigo planters that arose in Bengal in 1859 . </P> <P> Cause lead to revolt - Indigo planting in Bengal dated back to 1777 . With expansion of British power in the Nawabate of Bengal, indigo planting became more and more commercially profitable because of the demand for blue dye in Europe . It was introduced in large parts of Burdwan, Bankura, Birbhum, North 24 Parganas, and Jessore (present Bangladesh). The indigo planters persuaded the peasants to plant indigo instead of food crops . They provided loans, called dadon, at a very high interest . Once a farmer took such loans he remained in debt for his whole life before passing it to his successors . The price paid by the planters was meagre, only 2.5% of the market price . The farmers could make no profit growing indigo . 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 zamindars sided with the planters . Under this severe oppression, the farmers resorted to revolt . </P> <P> The Bengali middle class supported the peasants wholeheartedly . Bengali intellectual Harish Chandra Mukherjee described the plight of the poor peasants in his newspaper The Hindu Patriot . However the articles were overshadowed by Dinabandhu Mitra, who depicted the situation in his play Nil Darpan . The play created a huge controversy which was later banned by the East India Company to control the agitation among the Indians . </P>

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