Is it true that the Indigo Commission held the planters guilty of problems in the indigo production system?

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The above statement is true.
The Indigo Commission held the planters guilty of problems in the indigo production system.
Thousands of ryots in Bengal denied growing indigo in March 1859. As the rebellion expanded, ryots refused to pay planters' rents and attacked indigo factories. The government sent the military to protect the planters and established the Indigo Commission to investigate the indigo production system. They found the planters guilty and criticised them for using coercive methods with indigo cultivators. It declared that ryots could not profit from indigo production. The Commission asked the ryots to fulfil their existing contracts while allowing them to refuse to produce indigo.

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