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Was the Indigo revolt a non-violent revolution?

• Jogesh Chandra Bagal calls it a revolution, but 'non-violent': one reason why the indigo peasants s?ded while the sepoys failed was the former's renunciation of violence.5 Ramesh Chandra Majumdar in a recent history of Bengal describes the indigo revolt as the forerunner of the non-violent passive resistance later adopted by Gandhi.6

Does the Indigo have a display?

• Depending on the Indigo model, a display is available as an optional selection or as a standard feature. In the non-display model, an LED indicator is used for notifications.

Are there positive proofs of anti-British temper in the Indigo revolt?

• in the indigo revolt positive proofs of anti-British temper would perhaps be an unpromising task. The evidences of the ryots before the Indigo Commission bear out that their mood was at once gruff and glum, desperate and bitter in the extreme.

How much Indigo was produced in 1810?

• By the year 1810 the East India Company was capable of placing 5,500,000 pounds of merchantable indigo on the market in London with facility, all but wrecking the production from the Americas.14 12 Ibid. 1William G. De Brahm, History of the Three Provinces (f), p. 309.