Question

Answer all questions given under the heading.

Indentured Labour

1. What was the Indentured labour system?
2. How many Indians were transported under this system?
3. In which year was it started?
4. What was its result?

Answer 1

1. It was a form of debt bondage, a penal contract system.
2. 3.5 million Indians were transported to various British colonies to provide labour for the plantations.
3. It was started in 1843.
4. It resulted in the development of a large Indian diaspora, which spread from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, as well as contributing to the growth of the Indo-Caribbean and Indo-African populations.