Dear student,
The anger of the peasants exploded in 1859 when, led by Digambar Biswas of Govindpur village in Nadia district,they decided not to grow indigo under duress and resisted the physical pressure of the planters and their lathiyals backed by police and the courts.Many ryots in Bengal refused to grow in March 1859.The Bengali middle class supported the peasants whole heartedly. Harish Chandra Mukhopadhyay thoroughly described the plight of the poor peasants in his newspaper The Hindu Patriot.
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