Question

The Indigo farmers (ryots) were facing oppressive conditions for a long time. Howere, they decided to rebel against a loan.
A. Ryots had to sign an agreement for planting indigo against a loan.
B. Planters forced the ryots to plant indigo on the best soil meant for cultivating rice.
C. The price that the ryots got for the indigo was very low and the cycle of loans never ended.
D. Ryots had the support of local zamindars, village headmen as well as the British Government.

Answer 1

Hint:
Ryots term was used for Indian peasant cultivators who were forced to grow indigo on the best part of their lands. They worked under the Ryotwari system, which was introduced by Thomas Munro in the 1980's. Ryots were paid very low prices for their crop.

Complete solution:
The ryots were hesitant to develop indigo because of the accompanying reasons:
They were being addressed with low-costs for it.

They found that they could never procure any benefit from the indigo manor.
The ryots were demanded to develop indigo on the best pieces of their property by the grower, however they wanted developing rice on the best soils. But wherever the indigo was developed, the richness of the soil was diminished.

During the March of 1859, hundreds and thousands of ryots started to oppose the system and the East Indian company. They had the support of the village headmen in this rebellion. Even the zamindars were in support of the rebellion because they did not want the power of planters to increase any further.

This rebellion was known as the 'The Blue Rebellion' and they were confident that the British government would help them because they did not want another revolt of 1857. And due to this rebellion, the government really acted on it and the commission was found to be guilty. It was decided that the ryots will fulfill their existing contracts and in the future they can refuse to do indigo plantation.

Hence, the correct answer is option D.

Note:
 The land income is forced on people who are the genuine tenants, and this evaluation is known as ryotwari. In this system the British directly collected taxes from the ryots instead of zamindars, which ended the authority of zamindars.