🔵If a colour could be attributed to our long freedom struggle, it should be indigo. Around 1859, Indian peasants were being forced to do indigo cultivation under exploitative conditions to meet the growing demands of dye for industrial Britain.

🔵Exasperated by this unjust system, the peasants revolted against the Europeans, thereby igniting the fire for one of the most remarkable anti-colonial movements of Indian history- The #IndigoRevolt


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