Indigo Plantations in Bihar Under Structure of Agrarian - A Critical Review

Abstract

Present movement in champaran contributed substantially to the birth of gentian nationality. while issues here to the level of all-India politics, there is sample evidence in the case of champaran of discontent and protest long before the case of champaran of discontent and protest long before the coming of mahatma and the existence of upward pressure from the rural messes themselves. Actually, a rich body of literature exists on the several dimensions of the indigo plantation in colonial India. much of the existing literature examination the cultivation and manufacturing of indigo as they bear on the siring tide of the national movement in India . Within that larger interpretive formwork economic historians have examined the agriculture and commerce of indigo, 1 and prevailing labor relation on the plantation. 2 political historians have focused on the revolts on the indigo tracts to make important arguments about the nature of peasant movement during the British raj. 3 still other have studied the participation of natives on the indigo plantation in the growing national movement in India culminating in the growing national monument in India culmination in the growing national movement in India culminating in the gandhian styagraha of 1917.4