INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The fine qualities of cotton and silk produced in India had a big market in Europe. Indian spices like pepper, cloves, cardamom and cinnamon too were in great demand. Hence European trading companies were attracted to India.

Detailed explanation-2: -The demand for indigo increased in late-eighteenth-century Britain because of the expansion of cotton production as a result of industrialisation, which in turn created an enormous demand for cloth dyes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The British introduced widespread indigo cultivation in large parts of Bengal like the districts of Nadia and Jessore. The British indigo planters or nilkor sahebs leased lands from the landowners or zamindars with sharecroppers and tenants and coaxed the land tillers to plant indigo in place of food crops.