It is 1860s Calcutta. After a hundred years of East India Company rule, the signs of dissent against  foreign domination are discernible: the Mutiny of 1857 and from 1860 the Indigo Revolt the peasants  resistance against forced cultivation of indigo. The Revolt is in the form of a sustained campaign,  especially after an English translation of the play Nildarpan leads to the trial and sentencing of  Reverend James Long.

Sketches By Hootum The Owl: Satirist's View of Colonial Calcutta

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Sketches By Hootum The Owl: Satirist's View of Colonial Calcutta