Answer:
A bonded labourer
under contract to work for an employer for a specific amount of time, to pay
off his passage to a new country or home
(i) It was a world
of faster economic growth as well as great misery, higher incomes for some and
poverty for others.
(ii) In the
19th century, hundreds of thousands of Indian and Chinese labourers went to
work on plantations in mines and in road and railway construction projects
around the world.
(iii) In
India, indentured labourers were hired under contracts which promised return
travel to India after they had worked five years on their employees'
plantation.
(iv) In India, due
to the dry districts, cottage industries declined, and land rents rose, lands
were cleared for mines and plantations. All this affected the lives of the
poor, they failed to pay their rents, became deeply indebted and were forced to
migrate in search of work.
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