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Indentured laborers were hired under contracts that promised return travel to India after they had worked for five years on their employer's plantation. Recruitments were done by agents employed by the plantation owners and paid a small commission. Indentured labor migration from India illustrates the two-sided nature of the nineteenth-century world.