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One bigha of indigo cultivation required two ploughs.

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The given statement is True.
Two ploughs were required for one bigha of indigo cultivation. Bigha is a land unit of measurement, but the size of this area varied before British rule. The British standardised it to about one-third of an acre in Bengal. A planter with 1,000 bighas would require 2,000 ploughs. The purchase and maintenance of ploughs posed a significant challenge. Neither could supplies be obtained easily from the peasants because their ploughs and bullocks were busy on their rice fields when the indigo planters required them. Thus, the peasants faced many difficulties because of the number of ploughs needed to cultivate indigo.

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