In the grip of gruelling poverty, deprivation, starvation, and threatened by recurring famines, the helpless people from Indian villages preferred the unknown terrains to a hopeless existence in their native place. They either were forced to be a part of indentured labour or volunteered to emigrate to new shores, new climates. The colonial masters: not the British alone, but the Portuguese, the French, the Dutch and others, too took advantage of the abject ...
Colonial Emigration 19th, 20th Centuries: Annual Reports from The Port of Calcutta to The British & Foreign Colonies (Volume 2)
In the grip of gruelling poverty, deprivation, starvation, and threatened by recurring famines, the helpless people from Indian villages preferred the unknown terrains to a hopeless existence in their native place. They either were forced to be a part of indentured labour or volunteered to emigrate to new shores, new climates. The colonial masters: not the British alone, but the Portuguese, the French, the Dutch and others, too took advantage of the abject ...
Colonial Emigration 19th, 20th Centuries: Annual Reports from The Port of Calcutta to The British & Foreign Colonies (Volume 3)
In the grip of gruelling poverty, deprivation, starvation, and threatened by recurring famines, the helpless people from Indian villages preferred the unknown terrains to a hopeless existence in their native place. They either were forced to be a part of indentured labour or volunteered to emigrate to new shores, new climates. The colonial masters: not the British alone, but the Portuguese, the French, the Dutch and others, too took advantage of the abject ...
Colonial Emigration 19th, 20th Centuries: Annual Reports from The Port of Calcutta to The British & Foreign Colonies (Volume 4)
In the grip of gruelling poverty, deprivation, starvation, and threatened by recurring famines, the helpless people from Indian villages preferred the unknown terrains to a hopeless existence in their native place. They either were forced to be a part of indentured labour or volunteered to emigrate to new shores, new climates. The colonial masters: not the British alone, but the Portuguese, the French, the Dutch and others, too took advantage of the abject ...
Colonial Emigration 19th, 20th centuries: Annual Reports from The Port of Calcutta to The British & Foreign Colonies, (Volume 6)
An in-depth study of emigration was undertaken from 1882 that culminated in the massive Colonial Emigration Act XXI of 1883. Thereafter, the next acts, only to marginally amend the Act XXI of 1883, were passed in 1890 (one and half page) 1896 (half page), 1897 (one-fourth page), 1902 (three pages), 1904 (one page) and 1908 (one page).Thereafter, Act XXI of 1883 was not mentioned anymore as Act XVII of 1908 re-cast the terms for emigration and ran into 33 pages, ...
