The indigo plant has been a suffering image of British misuse all through the autonomy battle. It had made the cultivators challenge the out of line practices of the British Raj. Mahatma Gandhi began his first satyagraha at Champaran in Bihar against the British arrangement of Tinkathia framework executed on the indigo cultivators of the district. Champaran then was a significant spot for indigo development. This later came to be known as the Champaran satyagraha. Neel (indigo) began being developed industrially in Berar (today Bihar), Audh (today Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand) and Bengal in 1750 by the British East India organization, essentially for fare to China, UK and Europe. Being a money crop which required high measures of water and which left the dirt fruitless, nearby ranchers generally contradicted its development, rather wanting to develop every day need harvests, for example, rice and heartbeats. Thus the British colonialists constrained ranchers to develop indigo, regularly by making this the condition for giving credits, and through intrigue with nearby rulers, nawabs and proprietors. The exchange was worthwhile and prompted the fortunes of a few Asian and European dealers and organizations, including Jardine Matheson, E.Pabaney, Sassoon, Wadias and Swire.