justification of the title Indigo

Dear student,

Shukla was a farmer from Champaran. He approached Mahatama Gandhi and asked for help to get freedom from the British landlords. The plantation of Indigo was commercial, and the share croppers were forced to grow them on 15% of their land and give that to them as rent. The British officials later found German synthetic Indigo. Thus, they obtained agreements from sharecroppers to pay them compensation for being released from the 15% arrangement. But, the land had grown barren after growing indigo and was fit to grow only that crop. It frustrated the helpless farmers. Farming of indigo had led to miseries for the farmers. The crop was also a symbol of the foreign invasion: indigo was not an indigenous crop, but an unfamiliar and unknown one! Its growth, like that of the British empire, had been similar to that of a parasite: sucking the fertility from the land and leaving it useless! Hence, the title 'Indigo' is appropriate.

Regards

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