immediately appointed the "Indigo Commission" in 1860. In the commission report, E. W. L. Tower testified that "not a chest of Indigo reached England without being stained with human blood". In 1860, the British colonial authorities formed the Indigo Commission due to Nawab Abdul Latif's initiative with the goal of putting an end to the repressions of indigo planters (by passing the Indigo Act 1862). In popular culture Dinabandhu Mitra's 1860 play Nil Darpan was published in Dhaka and was based on the revolt. It was translated into English by poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta and published by Anglican priest James Long. For publishing the play, Long was put on trial by the colonial authorities and sentenced to a period of imprisonment and fine of 1,000 rupees. Kaliprasanna Singha, a friend of Long, paid the fine for him. The play proved to be essential to the development of theatre in Bengal and influenced Girish Chandra Ghosh, who in 1872 would go on to establish the National Theatre in Kolkata, where the first play ever commercially staged there was Nil Darpan. See also Indian Rebellion of 1857 History of Bengal Indigofera References 1859 in British India Bengal Renaissance 1859 in India Protests in British India Bengal Presidency Conflicts in 1859 Rebellions in India