INDIGO

Consider the following statements relating to Indigo revolt: 1. The Indigo revolt is particularly memorable for the role played by the intelligentsia to uphold the cause of the movement, 2. After the revolt, the colonial authorities set up the Indigo Commission to enquire into the grievances of the indigo cultivators. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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