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Who wrote the drama Neeldarpan?
- a.Harishchandra Mukherjee
- b.Girishchandra Ghosh
- c.Dwijendralal Roy
- d.Dinabandhu Mitra
Answer: (D) Dinabandhu Mitra
Nil Darpan (1860) by Dinabandhu Mitra exposed the oppression of Bengal's ryots by European indigo planters and gave voice to the Indigo Revolt of 1859-60. Its English translation, attributed to Michael Madhusudan Dutt, was published by Rev. James Long, who was fined and jailed for it. Harish Chandra Mukherjee championed the indigo cultivators through his paper Hindoo Patriot; Girish Chandra Ghosh was the father of Bengali public theatre; D. L. Roy wrote historical plays such as Shahjahan and Chandragupta. Nil Darpan was the first play staged commercially by the National Theatre (1872).