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In India, bonded labourers were transferred to another country on a contract for a specific amount of wage.

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In India, any bonded labourers who were transferred to another country on a contract for a specific amount of wage and time were known as indentured labourers. These labourers were mostly from Bihar, Central India, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh. Thousands of Indian and Chinese labourers went around the world to work in mines, plantations, and railway construction projects in the nineteenth century. Thus, nineteenth-century indenture has been described as ‘the new form of slavery. As the twentieth century began, India’s nationalist leaders began opposing the indentured labour system as abusive and cruel, which was abolished in 1921.

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