§ MR. O'DONNELLasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether it is true that a Petition has been presented to the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, from the Ryots of Mehurpur, in the district of Nuddea, complaining of the continued exactions, oppression, and extortion practised by indigo planters upon the native cultivators in order to force them to grow indigo for the factories; and, whether it is proposed to introduce any amendment in the Law upon the subject?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSSir, the proceedings of the Government of Bengal have 583 been searched, and no mention of the Petition referred to by the hon. Gentleman can be traced. The Bengal Rent Law, which is at present under the consideration of the Government of India, will deal with the relations of ryots and superior holders.