What were the causes of the Indigo Revolt?

The causes of the Indigo Revolt were plantation owners overexploiting indigo workers and forbidding them from growing any other crops.

What was the impact of the Indigo Revolt?

The impact of the Indigo revolt was a change in the law so that indigo growers were permitted to grow alternative crops, and there was a new law to protect contracts.

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Definition

The Indigo Revolt (aka Indigo Riots or Blue Mutiny) of 1859-60 in Bengal, India, involved indigo growers going on strike in protest at working conditions and pay. The subsequent violence was aimed at exploitative European plantation owners, but the cause was, during and after, taken up by anti-colonial Indian liberals as an example of the necessity for independence.

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