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 Indigo. Many whites, therefore, either acquired land or advanced loans to poor farmers and pressurized them to forsake the farming food grains and other cash crops 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 fertile land undergone forcible indigo cultivation, resulting in a famine situation in Bengal. V the farmers declined to cultivate indigos, they were tortured, jailed and even killed.
British settlers bought land in Bengal in order to

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A. Introduce cultivation of cash crop in India
B. cultivate indigo
C. settin down in India
D. promote export business in Bengal