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The  imposition  of  the  caste
                                                               The       poem        highlights         the
             system  gives  a  specific  section
                                                               rebellion       against       the     cruel
             of society a sense of superiority
                                                               incidents  that  happened  during
             even  today.  The  farmers  were
                                                               Neel      Bidroha       including        the
             forced  to  grow  Indigo  crops
                                                               burning        of     huts      and      the
             which provided less returns, and
                                                               victimizing  of  women  sexually
             they  had  little  to  no  say  in  what
                                                               that  led  to  some  committing
             kind  of  crops  they  had  to  grow
                                                               suicide by drowning in the river.
             despite       suffocating         working
             conditions  and  poor  returns  the
             Indigo harvesting provided.



























             The  fields  flame  with  it,  endless,
                                                               And the wind
             blue
                                                               screaming  in  the  voices  of
             as cobra poison. It has entered our
                                                               women
             blood
             and pulses up our veins                           dragged to the plantation,
             like night. There is no other color.              feet, hair, torn breasts.
             The planter’s whip                                … After that night
             splits open the flesh of our faces,               many  of  the  women  killed
             a blue liquid light trickles                      themselves.
             through the fingers. Blue dyes the                Drowning was the easiest.()
             lungs
             when we breathe.
                                                               In  the  name  of  culture,  a  fiery
                                                               adherence         to    chastity      in    a
             The  farmers  were  trapped  in  a
                                                               woman  even  in  the  face  of  the
             vicious  cycle  of  debt  and  they
                                                               gravest  adversity  has  always
             had  no  choice  but  to  shoulder
                                                               been  advocated,  fear  of  which
             the  burden  of  their  ancestors
                                                               which  made  them  take  away
             because of the rules that existed
                                                               their lives.
             then,  a  sad  reflection  on  the
             state of affairs that this appears

             to be the norm in the present as
             well.

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