Indigo resistance movement, India, 1859-1862 (Topical Term)
- Blue Mutiny, India, 1859-1862
- Indigo movement, India, 1859-1862
- Indigo rebellion, India, 1859-1862
- Indigo revolt, India, 1859-1862
- Broader heading: Protest movements India
Nīla Bidrohe Pāṃśā, 2016: title page (role of Pangsha Upazila [political division] in Nīla Bidroha [Indigo Rebellion])
Statesman (India). Rebellion lost for India kin, March 28, 2005 (Nil Bidroho (Indigo Resistance Movement); 1859 through 1862)
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 45, No. 8 (Feb. 20-26, 2010), pp. 67-72 (Moral Economy and the Indigo Movement / Sanjay Ghildiyal; peasant movement in Colonial Bengal)
Bhattacharya, Ananda. Indigo Rebellion, 2012: title page (Indigo Rebellion, 1859-1862)
Wikipedia, viewed March 7, 2019 (The Indigo revolt (or Nil vidroha) was a peasant movement and subsequent uprising of indigo farmers against the indigo planters that arose in Bengal in 1859)
Sen, S. N. History modern India for class XII, 2006, via Google Books, May 9, 2019: p. 114-115 (Indigo movements, 1959-1860: order for resolving indigo disputes was issued on August 20, 1859; "This set off the spark which started the fire"; Ryots flocked to Barasat to get copies of the order; in April 1860, the cultivators of Barasat refused to sow any indigo; "this was probably the first general strike in the history of the Indian peasantry"; soon spread to other districts of Bengal, Nadia, Jessore, Khulna, Rajshahi, Dacca, Malda, Dinajpur; instead of sending troops, the British government appointed a commission on March 31, 1860 to investigate the whole system of indigo cultivation; determined that the system was vicious, injurious, and radically unsound; Indigo movement was a powerful mass movement which generated a wide popular support from the intellectuals; Indian peasants took resource to the path of general strike; the spirit of non-cooperation manifested in the Indigo Rebellion may be said to be a precursor of the Non-Cooperation Movement started by Gandhi)
Peasant radicalism in nineteenth century Bengal, 2001: t.p. (the Faraizi, Indigo, and Pabna movements) p. 7 (Indigo Movement; 1859-1861) p. 91 (Indigo Resistance Movement; at times violent and ruthless, it was also non-violent and constitutional; attacked the indigo factories and simultaneously organized a campaign against indigo cultivation through petitions; also ostracized against the European planters and their local agents; first violent attack against the planters took place in 1808) p. 104, etc. (in the late 1850s and early 1860s, the Indigo movement became more violent and spread in almost all of the indigo growing districts)
Britannica online, May 17, 2019: India: Social policy (The flourishing indigo industry of Bengal and Bihar was threatened with extinction during the "Blue Mutiny" (violent riots by cultivators in 1859--60))