Why were Chinese and Indians forced to conduct forced labour in mines and on plantations?

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Due to Unemployment, poverty, and indebtedness

Due to decrease in land rents

Due to exposure

Due to unemployment

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Chinese and Indians were forced to conduct forced labour in mines and on plantations Due to Unemployment, poverty, and indebtedness. To work on plantations, mines, and numerous construction projects around the world in the nineteenth century, thousands of Indian and Chinese indentured labourers were dispatched. Most of the indentured labourers in India came from the present-day states of Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Central India, and Eastern Uttar Pradesh. As a result of unemployment, poverty, and debt in the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Indian and Chinese labourers were transferred throughout the world as indentured labourers to work on plantations, mines, and construction projects.

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