10th Class Social Science The Making of a Global World Question Bank 10th CBSE Social Science The Making of a Global World

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    Why do you think faster economic growth in the world led to migration of indentured labour?

    Answer:

                    (i) 19th century was the world of faster economic growth as well as great misery, higher income for some and poverty for others, technological advances in some areas and new forms of coercion in 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 employer's plantation.


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