Why did the British expand the areas under Indigo culitvation and who were the new plantation owners?

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The British expanded the areas under Indigo cultivation because this was used as a commercial crop more cultivation meant more produce which in turn make there profits large.The new plantation owners were European monopolistic indigo planters.

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