Some Took To Settled Cultivation

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Many poor farmers had been compelled to take up indigo cultivation when the Brit settlers were given the right to purchase and cultivate land in India. Many whites, therefore, they required land or advanced Indians to poor farmers and pressurized them to forsake the farming food grains and other cash for indigo cultivation Indigo export to Europe was lucrative the British settlers who held a monopoly of this business Within a few years, most of the farming bad undergone forcible indigo cultivation, resulting in a famine situation in Bengal. The farmers declined to cultivate indigo, they were tortured, jailed and even killed. The poor farmers in Bengal took up indigo cultivation because

Some Were Jhum Cultivators

The land which is not cultivated every year though it is suitable for cultivation

The Problem With Nij Cultivation

Azolla is used in the cultivation of :