Question

Which play written by Dinbandhu Mitra expose the exploitation of plantation workers in Bengal?

• A. Neel Durpan
• B. Kamale Kamini
• C. Lilavati
• D. Sadhabar Ekadasi

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Neel Durpan

• The Bengali play Neel Darpan (1860) by Dinabandhu Mitra was about life on an indigo plantation.

• He witnessed the atrocities committed by the planters who exploited and compelled the defenseless farmers to enter into transactions which caused them to incur heavy losses and debts.

• He incorporated these authentic facts with consummate skill in Neel Darpan.

• The play has acquired a considerable reputation both for its revolutionary content and the kind of reaction in evoked from the Colonial British government and its then colonized people.