INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

MODERN INDIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first Bengali Drama, written to highlight the brutality of the British indigo planters, was
A
Rast Goftar
B
Neel Darpan
C
Shome Prakash
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Neel Darpan is a Bengal i play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–1859. It was a drama depicting the pitiable condition of Bengal under the tyranny of Indigo planters. It was published from Dhaka in 1860.

Detailed explanation-2: -The correct answer is Dinabandhu Mitra. Key Points The famous writer Dinabandhu Mitra was writing the play Neel Darpan in 1860. Mitra’s play Nil Darpan was about the plight of indigo farmers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nil Darpan (sometimes Nil Durpan) or The Indigo Planting Mirror was a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858-59. The drama was written in the context of social agitation in Bengal, known as the Indigo Revolt. The play examines the treatment of the Indian peasantry or ryots by the indigo planters.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dinabandhu Mitra (10 April 1829– 1 November 1873) was a Bengali writer and dramatist.

Detailed explanation-5: -Neel Darpan is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–1859. The play was essential to the Indigo revolt of February–March 1859 in Bengal, when farmers refused to sow indigo in their fields as a protest against exploitative farming under the British Raj.

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