Rare 150-Yr-Old Pics of Indigo Planting & Manufacture in British India!
Rare 150-yr-old photographs of Planting & Manufacture of Indigo in India taken by French photographer Oscar Mallitte - Allahabad, 1877. Indigo planting in Bengal was started around 1777 & became more and more commercially profitable due to the demand for blue dye in Europe. The indigo planters forced peasants(farmers) to plant indigo instead of food crops. The high interest loans called "dadon" provided to the farmers made them indepted for life before passing it to their successors. The farmers were totally unprotected from the brutal indigo planters, who resorted to mortgages or destruction of their property if they were unwilling to obey them. Government rules favoured the planters. By an act in 1833, the planters were granted a free hand in oppression. Even the zamindars, money lenders and other influential persons sided with the planters. The continous exploitation of the farmers for half a century resulted in a rebellion, which historically came to be known as “The Indigo Revolt Of Bengal”. .............................................................. Click to Subscribe - http://goo.gl/47SV9m Click to Share on Facebook - http://goo.gl/loSclF Click to Share on Twitter - http://goo.gl/RBcyvs Click to Share on Google Plus - http://goo.gl/DAhOj1 .............................................................. Credits/Attributions: Photograph Courtesy: Photographer Oscar Mallitte - Allahabad, 1877
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There will always be the victims and the conquerors. Do you think there was no murders and mass annihilation of peoples of North Africa when Mohammed swept with his legions across the face of the continent and subjugated and subverted whole tribes to Islam? Islam never said sorry for their ruthless massacre of these peoples. Why should the British feel guilty? It is a war of civilizations. One would take us back to the seventh century and the other to the present. Choose!
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Good work, helped a lot.
BTW, could you tell me the name of the music played in the beginning? -
People know very little about West Bengal.British people were very clever.They did this Indigo farming only in Purulia district where people were less educated n never knew what bad thing can happen to their land after Indigo farming.My forefathers gave their fertile land for Indigo farming which today is just a barren land.Miles n miles one can find barren land.Farming still prevails in many parts of Purulia but the quality of rice is not so good.There is a place in present Purulia called Neelkuthi Danga ,means house n land of Indigo.Britishers have exploited people of Bengal like anything.When people revolted,they were brutally killed..British did everything to kill Bengal.They even divided Bengal.so that people get divided in every possible way.N Gandhi Nehru played a brutal role in partition.
one of my relatives house n land is brutally divided.Half in
India half in Bangladesh.
History is always written by Victor n History is always faced by victim... -
All got six packs
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i am a student of history............these pics make me thinkg of the pity conditions of our peasants class......these britishers really bleed india......
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The Indigo trade done by the British was one of the worst slavery by white people. Hundreds and thousands died due to indigo cultivation in Eastern India. Good that the synthetic dye was discovered.
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very interesting piece of history. Thank you
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Fuck Britain
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