“The Indigo Rebellion is a Paradigm Shift in Resistance.”
The 1859 Indigo Rebellion represented a political awakening of south Bengal's peasantry, marked by coordinated legal strategies and media mobilisation.
Indigo planters used the tinkathia system, forcing peasants to cultivate indigo on 3/20ths of their land. The rebellion channelled collective resistance through petition writing and the courts…
UPSC Framing
A 15-marker should cover tinkathia, legal strategies, Nil Darpan's role, and the Indigo Commission as institutional resolution.