The Blue or Indigo Mutiny of 1861, was an outpouring of anger by Indian peasants coerced into cultivating the unprofitable indigo crop by British planters.
‘Academy’, as many of us know, is a word that comes from the French word ‘academie’, evolving from Latin ‘academia’ the ultimate ancestor of both being Greek ‘akademeia’.
The report in ‘Hindu Patriot’ underscored the global impact of Nil Darpan, a play written in Bangla depicting the plight of indigo cultivators and the upsurge across Bengal against East India Company officials.