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নদীয়া-কাহিনী brór পাল চৌধুরীর সাক্ষ্য মাননীয় বঙ্গেশ্বর বাঙ্গাতুর বিশেস উল্লেখ যোগ্য বলিয়া @“代可1夺乙颈可1° এদিকে যখন কমিসন প্ৰজাগণের সাক্ষ্য গ্ৰহণ করিতেছিলেন, তখন L DBBYD L DBBDDS DDDDS DDDEEEE DS S BBDB মধ্যে প্রবাহিনী “কুমার” ও “কালী গঙ্গা” দিয়া ষ্টীমার আরোহণে গমন করিতেছিলেন। তিনি বলেন “তখন নদীতীরে দলে দলে প্ৰজাগণ সমবেত -President. R. Temple. Esq., C. S, Member. Rev. J. Sale, to represent the interests of the rayats in the committee, and the missionaries. W. F. Furgusson Esq. nominated by the Indigo Planters' Association to represent the interest of that body and Babu Chandra Mohan Chatterjee nominated by the British lindian Association to represent the Landholders, interest.

  • “Babu Joychand Pal Choudhury-a great Zemindar, who is or was a great indigo planter (having had thirty two concerns in his Estate and shares in 9 other concerns ) is asked "If the rayats have for the last twenty years been unwilling to sow indigo, how then have they gone on cuitivating the plant up to the present time' To this he answers "by numerous acts of oppression and violence, by locking them up in godowns, burning their houses, beating them

etc' The whole of this gentleman's evidence is very instructive as proceeding from a great Zemindar and practical native indigo planter. This diluted into becoming official language, I find to be the conclusion of the commi ssion and it is certainly the inevetable deduction from the whole body of evidence." Minute of the Ltnt, Governor on the Report of the Indigo Commission. Para 4o, S S)