THE INDIGO REVOLT OF BENGAL 23 24 Ibid., p 65. 25 Ibid., p 96. 26 Mitra, op. cit., pp 786-87. See also Haran Ghandra Chakladar, "Fifty Years Ago-The Woes of a Class of Bengal Peasantry under European Indigo Planters," in Dawn Magazine, Calcutta, July 1905. 27 Pramode Sengupta, Neel Bidroha 0 Bangali Samaj, (in Bengali), Calcutta 1960, p 93. 28 Bagal, Muktir Sandhana Bharat, p 156. 29 Bagal, Peasant Revolution, letter of 5 July 1860. 30 Ibid., letter of 1 August 1860. 81 Ibid., letter of 8 August 1860. 82 Anath Nath Bose, Mahatma Sisirkumar Chose (in Bengali), Calcutta 1337 B.S., p 140. 33 Ranajit Guha, "Neel Darpan: The Image of a Peasant Revolt in a Liberal Mirror" Journal of Peasant Studies, London, vol 2, no 1, October 1974, pp 4-5. 34 Suprakas Roy, Bharater Krishak Bidroha 0 Ganatantrik Sangram (in Bengali), Calcutta 1972,p 339. :}0 Sengupta, op. cit., p 149. 36 Subhas Bhattacharya, "Indigo Planters, Ram Mohan Roy and the Charter Act of 1833", in Social Scientist, 39, October 1975. See also Amalendu De, "Indigo Plantation: A Source of Oppression", Bengal; Past and Present, Calcutta, July-December 1963. »7 Chowdhury, op. cit., pp 165-68. 58 Iswer Chandra Singh, honorary secretary to the British Indian Association, in a letter of 29 August 1857 toAR Young, secretary to the Government of Bengal, criticized the appointment of planters as assistant magistrates. See Nirmal Sinha, Freedom Movement in Bengal (1818-1904), Who's Who, Education Department Government of West Bengal, Calcutta 1968,p 445. See also Ghakladar, op. cit. •;9 The Hindoo Patriot, 22 August 1860. 40 Guha, op. cit. 41 Bagal, Muktir Sandhane Bharat (in Bengali), old edition, Calcutta 1367 B. S., p 63. Such a statement, however, is missing in the revised and enlarged edition referred to above. 42 Quoted in Sengupta, op. cit., p 90. 43 Narahari Kabiraj, "Peasant Questions", in Atui Chandra Gupta (ed.), Studies in the Bengal Renaissance, Calcutta 1958, pp 517-28. 44 One of the best discussions on the Bengali liberals' attitude towards the indigo rebellion is by Guha, op. cit. ^ Ibid.,pp 11-12. ^ Buckland, op. cit., p 192. 47 Preface by the author; See Nil Durpan or The Indigo Planing Mirror by Dinabandhu Mitra, translated from the Bengali by a Native, edited with an introduction by Sankar Sengupta, Calcutta 1972. 48 Evidence ofHarish Chandra Mukherji, RIC, A 3873.