Amisha Sood: Recent Episodes
Amisha Sood
The Indigo Rebellion (Neel Bidroho) took place in Bengal in 1859-60 and was a revolt by the farmers against British planters who had forced them to grow indigo under terms that were greatly unfavourable to the farmers. ... The cultivators were forced to grow indigo in place of food crops.
Towards the end of 18th century the company began forcing farmers to grow more cash crops !
British adopted many policies to generate more revenue from land such as permanent settlement , Mahalwari system and Ryotwari system !
Fadel castro won the cuban revolution of 1959 through the guerrilla warfare and became the cuban president , made cuba a small island which is 90 miles away from US an ally of USSR and received both diplomatic and financial aid from soviet russia .
The internal weakness of soviet institutions , rampant corruption , authoritarian nature , space race lead to rise of nationalism among the dissatisfied people .
As the students of political science we should now that the ideological differences between these two groups leading to an atmosphere of political distrust which added the insecurities towards each other , which provoked both the blocks to produce more weapons , spy on other etc