Explanation:

Explanation:  Option (c) is correct Supplementary notes: Indigo revolt of 1859-60  In Bengal, the indigo planters, nearly all Europeans, exploited the local peasants by forcing them to grow indigo on their lands instead of the more paying crops like rice.  The planters forced the peasants to take advance sums and enter into fraudulent contracts which were then used against the peasants.  The anger of the peasants exploded in 1859 when, led by Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Biswas of Nadia district  They decided not to grow indigo under duress and resisted the physical pressure of the planters and their lathiyals (retainers) backed by police and the courts.  The ryots replied by going on a rent strike by refusing to pay the enhanced rents and by physically resisting the attempts to evict them.  The Bengali intelligentsia played a signi fi cant role by supporting the peasants’ cause through newspaper campaigns, organisation of mass meetings, preparing memoranda on peasants’ grievances and supporting them in legal battles