Correct Answer - Option 4 : Dinabandhu Mitra
The correct answer is Dinabandhu Mitra.
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Neel Darpan:
- Neel Darpan is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–1859
- Dinabandhu Mitra published a play, Neel Darpan, with the planters' atrocities as its theme.
- It was translated into English by Michael Madhusudan Dutta and published by Reverend James Long, for which he was sentenced to prison and charged with sedition.
- The play was essential to Nil Vidroha, better known as the Indigo Revolt of February–March 1859 in Bengal, when farmers refused to sow indigo in their fields to protest against exploitative farming under British rule.
- It was also essential to the development of theatre in Bengal and influenced Girish Chandra Ghosh, who in 1872 would establish the National Theatre in Kolkata, where the first play ever commercially staged was Nildarpan.
- It included all the relevant documents and comments of the Indian and British newspapers.
