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Indigo production required manual labor, and both men and women were part of the production process in the 19th century indigo industry.

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Important Questions on Ruling the Countryside

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Who were the indigo planters in colonial India?
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How did the British indigo planters exploit Indian farmers?
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Francois Bernier was the French missionary who visited Caribbean indigo plantations.
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What was the primary method of extracting indigo from the plant?
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What was the impact of indigo cultivation on Indian farmers?
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Who among the following wrote about Indigo Making in the West Indies?
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What did indigo farmers have to do under the 'Tinkathia System'?
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The Nij and Ryoti systems of cultivation were related to which crop?
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What was the main method of indigo cultivation?
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In the system of nij cultivation, the planter produced indigo in lands that he directly controlled.
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Who were the main producers of indigo in colonial India?
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What was indigo used for in the 19th century?
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Which of the following systems was used for cultivating Indigo?
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What was the major consequence of the Indigo Revolt of 1859-60?
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The fermenting or storage vessel for indigo was called vat in the nineteenth-century Indian indigo industry.
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What was the role of the indigo commission?
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Which country in our neighbourhood is known for the cultivation of poppy?
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What was the name of the fermenting or storage Vassal used to produce Indigo? 
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Which region in India was the main center for indigo production?