Which was the first freedom struggle of India, if the Sepoy Mutiny failed to meet the historians' criteria? Dr. B. Kling wrote a most valuable book on the Indigo Disturbances in Eastern India : The Blue Mutiny. It had stirred the popular imagination and threw up lores and literature! British Crown could find a foil in the East India Co. till 1858 when it had to assume direct control of the Indian Empire and its affairs. In this period of historic transition one ...
