ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY SPECIAL THANKS OF

GRATITUDE TO MY ENGLISH TEACHER “ MRS DEEPIKA
MAM” FOR THEIR ABLE GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT IN
COMPLETING MY PROJECT.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO EXTEND MY GRATITUDE TO THE
PRINCIPLE MAM “MRS DEEPA SHARMA” FOR
PROVIDING ME WITH ALL THE FACILITY THAT WAS
REQUIRED.
 OBJECTIVES
• THE STORY ‘ INDIGO ’ HIGHLIGHTS THE
UNEQUAL ECONOMIC SYSTEAM THAT EXISTED
DURING COLONIAL BRITISH RULE. IT RESULTED
IN INDIAN PEASANTS SUFFERING WHILE THE
BRITISH PLANTERS EXPLOITED THEM. IT ALSO
HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF GANDHI’S
DECISION TO TAKE UP THEIR CASE WHICH
EXPOSED THE UNJUST SYSTEM.
 WHAT IS INDIGO SHARECROPPING ?
• THE BRITISH INTRODUCED WIDESPREAD
CULTIVATION IN LARGE PARTS OF BENGAL LIKE
THE DISTRICTS OF NADIA. THE BRITISH INDIGO
PLANTERS SAHEB LEASED LANDS FROM THE
LANDOWNERS OR ZAMINDARS WITH
SHARECROPPERS AND TENANTS AND COAXED
THE LAND TILLERS TO PLANT INDIGO IN PLACE
OF FOOD CROPS.
 NATURAL INDIGO HARVESTING
• THE BEST TIME TO HARVEST IS JUST BEFORE
THE FLOWERS OPEN. INDIGO IS A PERENNIAL
PLANT AND TO KEEP THE PLANT FOR MORE
THAN A YEAR YOU SHOULD HARVEST ONLY
HALF ONLY HALF THE LEAVES AT ONE TIME.
YOUR INDIGO PLANT MAY NEED TO BE MORE
THAN A YEAR OLD TO COME INTO BLOOM
AND IT NEEDS PLENT OF WARMTH TO
FLOWER.
 DYEING TECHNOLOGY
• DYEING IS DESCRIBED AS THE CREATING OF A
NEW AND PERMANENT COLOUR, BY
IMPREGNATION OF ESPECIALLY A DYE ONTO
ANY MATERIAL NAMELY, TEXTILES, PAPER OR
LEATHER. MODERN DYEING TECHNOLOGY
CONSISTS OF SEVERAL STEPS DETERMINED
ACCORDING TO THE NATURE OF THE FIBER
AND PROPERTIES OF THE DYES AND
PIGMENTS FOR USE IN FABRICS
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NATURAL AND
CHEMICAL INDIGO
NATURAL INDIGO CHEMICAL INDIGO
• NATURAL INDIGO IS OBTAINED • INDIGO DYE IS AN ORGANIC
FROM A VARIETY OF PLANTS, COMPOUND WITH A
THE MOST WIDELY USED ONE DISTINCTIVE BLUE COLOR.
BEING INDIGOERA TENTORIA. INDIGO WAS A NATURAL DYE
THIS SHRUB GROWS WILD AND EXTEACTED FROM THE LEAVES
IS CULTIVATED IN TROPICAL OF THE SOME PLANTS OF THE
AREAS THROUGHOUT THE INDIGOFERA GENUS.
WORLD. INDIGO POWDER-THE INDIGOFERA PLANTS WERE
FAMOUS BLUE DYE- IS COMMONLY GROWN AND USED
EXTRACTED FROM THE LEAVES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN
OF THE INDIGO PLANT. ASIA IN PARTICULAR, AS AN
IMPORTANT CROP.
ADVANTAGES OF NATURAL INDIGO OVER
CHEMICAL INDIGO AND VICE-VERSA
• INDIGO DYE :-
• IT IS USED TO COLOUR NOT ONLY YOUR HAIR
AND BEARD BUT ALSO ALMOST ALL KIND OF
BLUE DENIM, SOME FABRICS, SILK AND WOOL.
INDIGO DYE IS A NATURAL DYE, UNLIKE THE
SYNTHETIC DYES THAT WE GET NOWADAYS.
INDIGO IS FILLED WITH NUMEROUS NATURAL
INGREDIENTS THAT HELP STRENGTHEN AND
COVER THE GREYS OF THE HAIR.
• INDIGO POWDER MAKES FOR A 100%
CHEMICAL- FREE HAIR DYE AND CONTAINS NO
PPD, NO CHEMICALS AND NO ADDED HEAVY
METALS, SYNTHETIC FERTILISERS, OR
ADDITIVES OF ANY KIND. UNLIKE
TRADITIONAL CHEMICAL DYES, WHICH CAN
DAMAGE THE HAIR FOLLICLES, INDIGO
POWDER CAUSES NO DAMAGE TO THE HAIR
OR SCALP AND IS SAFE TO USE LONG TERM.
 EFFORT BY GANDHI TO PUT AN END
TO SHARECROPPING IN CHAMPARAN
• UNDER THE BRITISH RULE, MANY FARMERS IN
THE CHAMPARAN DISTRICT OF BIHAR WERE
FORCED TO GROW INDIGO IN THEIR LANDS,
MUCH TO THEIR DISMAY. TO FIGHT THIS, A
MONEY LENDER NAMED RAJKUMAR SHUKLA
REACHED OUT TO GANDHIJI AND REQUESTED
HIM TO COME AND HELP THEM
• AS GANDHIJI WROTE IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
HE DID NOT EVEN KNOW OF CHAMPARAN
BEFORE THIS. NONETHELESS, HE CAME DOWN
TO THIS DISTRICT O APRIL 10 OF 1917 WITH A
BAND OF LAWYERS, INCLUDING DR RAJENDRA
PRASAD, TO FIGHT IT OUT WITH THE BRITISH.
• THERE HAD BEEN THE INDIGO RIOTS IN 1859-
60 BUT THIS WAS A NEW STRUGGLE
ALTOGETHER
 GANDHIJI AS A LEADER
• MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI IS
WIDELY RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY’S GREATEST POLITICAL
AND SPIRITUAL LEADERS. HONORED IN INDIA
AS THE FATHER OF THE NATION, HE
PIONEERED AND PRACTICED THE PRINCIPLE
OF SATYAGRAHA– RESISTANCE TO TYRANY
THOUGH MASS NONVIOLENT CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCE.
 CONCLUSION
• THE INDIGO FARMERS ALL UNITED TOGETHER
AGAINST THE ENGLISH MEN. THEY ALL
PARTICIPATED AND PLAYED MAJOR ROLE IN
FIRST WAR OF 1857. THOUGH THEIR REVOLT
WAS CRUSHED CRULLEY, BUT THEY
SUCCESSFULLY BROUGHT THE END TO THE
EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THUS ALSO THEY
WROTE A GOLDEN PAGE IN INDIAN HISTORY.
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
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