Indigo Movement During British Rule In India (part:3)

  

    Indigo Movement in India (Bengal) 

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The agitation covered a large area of Bengal, but it has no central leadership, Area-wise leadership was emerged, among them Mr, Bisnu Chandra Biswas and Mr. Digamber Biswas of Chowgacha In Jessore were very much eminent, The peasants of Chowgacha attacked on some indigo Khuties and ransacked them, Most of the indigo Businessmen flew away left their Khuties and properties, Some Businessmen died sudden attack, Thus the Indigo cultivation in Jessore, Khulna, Nadia, 24 Pargana, Pabna and Faridpure was almost collapsed,

  Indigo Tree

In that time, The Lord of Bengal province Mr. Grant went in launch on Kumer and Kaliganga rivers in Jessore and Faripure area as his un-official travel, The Lord saw thousands of peasants on the bank of Kumer river, who asked the captain to land the launch at the bank, The Lard was astonished to see the gathering and felt fear anticipating danger, He ordered captain not to land the launch, Then the agitator peasants jumped in river and caught the launch, Eventually the Lord was bound to lanpeasans asked the Lard to declare stopping indigo cultivation in Bengal, The Lard was compelled to promise to declare stopping indigo cultivation,

The British Govt, made an ‘Indigo Commission’ for reviewing the actual situation, after getting report, the British Govt, made an Act, where an article was “Indigo cultivation is hereby forbidding without will of the peasants” Thus the agitation ended with a great success for that time, after proclamation of this act, most of the factories were declared closed, only some were continuing with the consent of the peasants,

 In 1889, one indigo Businessmen Mr. Dumbell of Bijlia area of Jessore again started oppression on the peasants, the peasants of 48 villages gathered for agitation under the leadership of Zaminder Mr. Bondhu Bihari and his brother Mr. Bashanta Kumer of soshtibir area, the peasants attacked the Khuti and bound to surrender Mr.Dumbell, Then British Govt. formed one ‘Arbitrary Board’ for reviewing the situation of indigo cultivation, getting  information from Bengal, The board considered the situation  of peasants movement logical and suggested for increasing price of raw indigo,

 Indigo Tree

Meanwhile, the synthetic indigo was invented in 1895, So automatically indigo cultivation lost its priority and almost all factories went in lay-out, Eventually indigo cultivation and its Business were closed perpetually in Bengal,