The contracts of indentured labourers in India, promised return travel to India only after they had worked years on their employer’s plantation. (seven / five)
Important Questions on The Making of a Global World
Which of the following statements about opium cultivation in India during the British period are correct?
I. The peasants could sell off the produce freely.
II. Local traders offered higher prices for opium.
III. Opium production was increasing in territories that were not under the British.
IV. Peasants were getting money advances from the village headman to produce opium.
From the following, identify the correct statements relating to indentured labour migration from India.
I. In the nineteenth century, thousands of Indian labourers went to work in plantations, mines, and road and railway construction projects around the world.
II. Most of the indentured labour came from present-day regions of northern and western India such as Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Rajasthan.
III. The indentured network which has often been described as a ‘new system of slavery' for the labourers found the most pathetic and terrible conditions of living and working on their arrival in places like the Caribbean Islands, Mauritius, Fiji, Ceylon and Malaya.
IV. Some indentured labourers found innovative ways of expressing themselves by blending their own cultural ethos with that of the new place.
The main destinations of Indian _____ migrants were the Caribbean islands, Mauritius and Fiji. (prisoned / indentured)
When was indenture labour migration abolished in India?
Better living conditions promoted social peace within the European countries and imperialism abroad.
Which of the following changes forced Indians to migrate as indentured worker in the mid-nineteenth century?
_____ migrants went to Ceylon and Malaya. (Rajasthan / Tamil)
