‘Indentured labour migration from India illustrated the two-sided nature of the. 19th century world’. Explain

‘Indentured labour migration from India illustrated the two-sided nature of the. 19th century world’. Explain.

  • 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.