Colonial Emigration 19th, 20th Centuries: Annual Reports from The Port of Calcutta to The British & Foreign Colonies (Volume 3)
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1st ed.
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9789380313016
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viii+362p.,
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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 ...
