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Many poor farmers had been compelled to take u indigo cultivation when the British settlers were given the right to purchase and cultivate land in India. Many whites, therefore, either acquired land or advanced loans to poor farmers and pressured them to forsake the farming of food-grains and other cash crops for indigo cultivation. Indigo export to Europe was lucrative for the British settlers who held a monopoly of this business. Within a few years, most of the fertile lands had undergone forcible indigo cultivation, resulting in a famine situation in Bengal. When the farmers declined to cultivate indigo, they were tortured, jailed and even killed.

The farmers were tortured, jailed and killed when:

A) They captured land

B) They tried to leave Bengal

C) They sought help from foreign powers to fight against British

D) They declined to cultivate indigo

E) None of these