Question

what was indigo cultivation? y were peasants not willing to expand the area under indigo cultivation

Answer 1

Indigo cultivation was the practice of growing indigo in Bengal during the mid-19th century. The Indigo plant was in high demand in the European textile industry as a source of blue dye for manufactured cloth.

Peasants were not willing to expand the area under indigo cultivation because the British planters for whom they grew the crop gave very low prices for the crop. Hence, the peasants could not afford a decent standard of living by growing indigo.