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 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