1834 CE–1920 CE
The empire expands Indian indentured labour
British Empire · Companies, trade & extraction · Slavery & coerced labor · Migration & diaspora
After emancipation, governments and planters moved more than a million workers, chiefly from India, to Mauritius, the Caribbean, Fiji, Natal, and elsewhere. Contracts promised wages and return, but recruitment, penal sanctions, and restricted mobility produced coercive conditions; diasporic communities transformed entire societies
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