Dinabandhu Mitra is known for his novel Nil Darpan (The Mirror of Indigo) which describes the oppression of the indigo cultivators at the hands of indigo planters, leading to the Indigo Revolt in Bengal in 1859.
Indigo Revolt has been described as "the first Revolution in Bengal after the advent of the English."
Since Dinabandhu Mitra was in government service, he published Nil Darpan in the name of anonymous.
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