Question

'Neel Darpan' is a play based on the story of Indigo Rebellion of Bengal of $1860-61$. Who authored it?

• A. Dinabandhu Mitra
• B. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
• C. Jointly by Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh
• D. Madhusudan Dutta

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

Dinabandhu Mitra

In 1860, Dinabandhu Mitra, an inspector of the post office department, published the play titled Neel Darpan. The play was essential to Nilbidraha, or Indigo revolt of February–March 1859 in Bengal, when farmers refused to sow indigo in their fields as a protest against exploitative farming under the British Raj.