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Indigo Revolt

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A major peasant resistance movement in Bengal against coercive indigo cultivation in 1859-1860.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

Explanation

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The Indigo Revolt shows how rural exploitation, plantation capitalism, legal pressure, and public opinion came together in colonial Bengal.

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