Question

Explain the example of indentured labour migration from india. Also illustrate the two sided nature of the 19th century world?

Answer 1

in india, labours were hired under contracts which promised return travel to india after they had worked 5 yrs on their employer's plantations.in mid 19th century indian places experienced many changes.all effected lives of poor.they failed to pay rents,became deeply in debt. and were forced to migrate in search of work.this is how indian labours became indentured 

Answer 2

Answer:

INDENTURED labour migration from India illustrates two sides nature of the nineteenth century world. It was a world of faster economic growth as well as great misery, higher incomes for one and poverty for others, technological advances in some areas and new forms of coercion in others.

In the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Indian and Chinese labourers went to work on plantation, in mines and in railway construction projects. They work on contract, failed to pay debts. They were migrated to other places as indentured labour.