Bharat Ek Khoj 44: Indigo Revolt

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Bharat Ek Khoj-The Discovery of India
A Production of Doordarshan, the Government of India’s Public Service Broadcaster
Episode 44: Indigo Revolt
With Om Puri as Nabakrisima Banergee., Virendra Saxena as Madhav, Tom Alter as Larmour, Achyut Potdar as Damga, Vijay Kashyap as Harish Mukheriee, Devendra Malhotra as Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, Ranjana Gaur as Malati, Satish Kaushik as Ramgopal Ghosh, Irfan Khan as Michael Madhusudan Butt, and the script is by Gulan Kripalani.
Nehru observes that when the English first occupied India, there was a sufficiently developed base of industry and the chief business of the East India Company was to carry Indian manufactured goods like textiles and spices to Europe. With the industrial revolution taking place in England, the Indian market was to be opened to British manufacturers. This exclusion extended to other foreign markets as well and the flow of Indian goods was prevented within the country itself. Consequently Indian textile industry collapsed, affecting a vast number of weavers and artisans, followed by other industries like shipbuilding, metalwork, and crafts. Nehru further observes that with the rapidly increasing unemployment and poverty, the classic colonial economy built up.-India then became a predominantly agricultural country supplying raw material to Industrial England at a low price and in turn, providing a market for England’s finished goods.
The hapless peasants are stopped from cultivating rice and, instead, forced to switch over to indigo, a necessary raw material for the British industry, to be purchased at a low price. Refusal is met with stern admonition and even physical torture. The intellectual weapon to counter the evil is a compelling Bengali play Neel Darpan (The Indigo Mirror) by Deenabandhu Mitra. The first scene shows the oppression of a poor peasant by the British contractor, making indigo cultivation obligatory unless he is provided the services of a comely maiden. The second scene displays the common man’s perception of resistance through humour and banter, until the stick- wielding police close down the play already declared illegal.
The helpless peasants rue their fate of giving up rice-cultivation in favour of Indigo-farming and recall the meaningful efforts of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the noted philanthropist and social reformer. The British officials use Indian spies to collect information on organised resistance. Educated Indians send mass-petitions to British India Association drawing Lord Canning’s attention. Meanwhile, the torture-machinery continues unabated to provide punitive punishment to the opposing leaders. The scared villagers maintain stoic silence, till they find the ringleader Madhav tortured to death, his corpse thrown into the river and his widow sneering in the face of the dumb society. They revolt by setting indigo godowns and houses of the scheming English contractors on fire and rampaging the British property.
Eventually, the Indigo Revolt has the desired impact - making the British stop forced indigo cultivation altogether. Vidyasagar’s efforts for widow remarriage, promotion of women’s education, abolition of Koolin polygamy and child-marriage are seen.
As Nehru notes, the 19th century saw in India two Englands living side by side: one of high intellectual attainment and political maturity and the other of savage penal codes and brutal behaviour.
Producer Doordarshan
Language Hindi
Credits
Uploaded by Public.Resource.Org
Based on Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India
With Roshan Seth as Jawaharlal Nehru
Om Puri as the Narrator
Produced and Directed by Shyam Benegal
Chief Assistant Director was Mandeep Kakkar
Executive Producer Raj Plus
Script by Shama Zaldi and Sunil Shanbag
A production of Doordarshan

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@psir01 4 жыл бұрын

God protect and long live farmer. India is farmer country. Satyamev Jayate Jai hind.

@brijeshyadav-cf2ij 2 жыл бұрын

Andh log

@sailendranathpaul2315 2 жыл бұрын

Best serial in Indian history.

@padmeswarnarah4151 2 жыл бұрын

Jai jawan jai kishan jai hindustan.❤️❤️🙏❤️❤️

@devindersoni2192 Жыл бұрын

शायद ही भारत के इतिहास को इतने सही ढंग से दिखाने वाला धारावाहिक और बनाने वाले भविष्य मे ऐसा धारावाहिक बना सके, कभी नहीं कभी नहीं कोई नहीं

@mdusufali1941 2 жыл бұрын

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@JitendraKumar-vk5jt 5 жыл бұрын

Miss you ompuri sir

@Vipul-sm7hf 3 жыл бұрын

Alter is so great actor

@zoharizvi1627 3 жыл бұрын

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@MP_mp20 8 ай бұрын

No word # awesome

@rakeshnarula462 5 жыл бұрын

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@siddharthverma2849 Жыл бұрын

Good to see Irfan Khan..

@udayprakashmishra826 2 жыл бұрын

At 51.34 he says bhumihaaron... I am bhumihaar...kaan ko tasalli Mili sun ke...

@nileshk1455 3 жыл бұрын

Brahims poligamy

@SrimanArcharyaJBC 2 жыл бұрын

Indigo was a fabric dye company. It made several colours and put patents on them these documents are still around today. The British would have records in history and so would the Indians. Non Indian Hindu Khumbars cannot ever represent any type of colour as they did not create over 16.7 million different colours through historical success. My old company The Indigo created the last colour made (Indigo) and distributed through fabric all around the world as the completion of the colours the all naturally living entity’s can see. The company before Indigo had several different names according to historical representation. The history dates back to over 75,000 years with proper tracing and evidence🤴🏽🕉🔺➕

@brd8764 4 жыл бұрын

Trying to know.

@tanupam5499 2 жыл бұрын

Vidyasagar thew shoes at the English indigo merchant

@rajarshichakraborty9141 3 жыл бұрын

The word nilkar saheb still makes me afraid

@ravikantsingh9602 6 жыл бұрын

irfan khan.....10:00

@Versatilad 5 жыл бұрын

Aaj din tak chawannio main bikte aur bat-te aaye hai ham Hindustani... 100 main 80 be-iman phir bhi mera desh mahan?

@rajarshichakraborty9141 3 жыл бұрын

2nd uprising coming soon with the new act

@anandyadav7866 6 жыл бұрын

Good

@manojdandekar3726 5 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤

@rajvarma6612 5 жыл бұрын

Jai bhaim namo buddhay

@legendmoosagaming 2 жыл бұрын

Kitne Mahan log hue h.

@prashantsingh-jt7mw 5 жыл бұрын

jawahar lal nehru architect of modern india....👍👍👍👍

@virender2025 4 жыл бұрын

Lawda Mera nehru ka bas chalta to 2 saal orraaz krne ke liye Indira ko bhi chudwa deta angrezo se

@oggyjack8252 4 жыл бұрын

Nehru aur Indira ki pro-socialist nitiyo ke wajah se aaj desh itna peeche hogaya hai. Tashkent files naam ki web-Series dekho, Post Independence history ke baarke mein kitna kuch pata chalega

@yashvardhansharma8851 3 жыл бұрын

@@oggyjack8252 where can i find this webseries?

@divyanshushankar8134 3 жыл бұрын

@@oggyjack8252 ungrateful aadmi. Modi aur RSS ne kya Kar Diya. Bana banaya desh toh chalaya nhi jaa rha.

@sukantg7846 3 ай бұрын

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@erashutosh1 4 жыл бұрын

विष्णु विश्वास और दिगंबर विश्वास का तो कोई जिक्र नहीं दिखाया गया है

@theaborigine1119 3 жыл бұрын

Irfan Khan 😍 Irfan khan 😭

@killercomedies5051 Жыл бұрын

ये जवाहर लाल नेहरू की लिखी पुस्तक पर आधारित है।

@anupamaraianvirai1183 3 жыл бұрын

can anyone explain the scene of 26:49? plz tell the characters too

@machine.g 3 жыл бұрын

Members of British Indian Association, discussing what to do about indigo issue. Settled on sending a petition to governor general.

@KundankumarSingh-kg1bq 10 ай бұрын

Thanks to our legends who make Bharat ekk khoj, Ramayan , Mahabharat and one more important thing our current generation can't make these type of historical without mirch masala so they bluddy rascal can make money easily