Translated from the Bengali by a Native Mitra, Dinabandhu 1829-1874 creator Dutt, Michael Madhusudan 1824-1873 text utu 2017 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama" by Dinabandhu Mitra is a Bengali-language play written in 1858–1859. Set during British Company rule in Bengal, the drama portrays the brutal conflict between European indigo planters and Indian farmers exploited under oppressive working conditions. Written to mobilize support for the Indigo Revolt, the play sparked controversy and legal action, with its English translator facing imprisonment for criminal libel. The work pioneered social realism in Bengali theatre and helped establish colloquial Bengali as a literary language. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nil_Darpan Release date is 2017-01-19 Produced by KD Weeks, Mary Glenn Krause, Eric Lehtonen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Original publication data not identified Indigo industry -- India -- Bengal -- Drama PK Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54027 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54027 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134238.0 54027