Our story begins in the closing years of the last century which saw the mighty British Empire at the zenith of its power and glory. The empire by this time had extended to almost half of the world, far into the East including India, Burma and so on and far into the West including a good part of the Americas. The time was then, when the Britishers could proudly and reasonably claim that “the sun never set on the British Empire”.
The British rulers at this time needed large number of workmen to develop and exploit their colonies in the different continents, for, their own home land- the petty British Islands- could hardly supply enough administrators and governors and army top brass to rule the extensive empire. India- their biggest colony- had the largest population. This population, the British rulers decided, should be made use of for developing the other sparsely populated colonies in the African and South American continents. With this end in view the British rulers started recruitment of Indians as labor force to be sent abroad for a period of time as contract labour. After the contract period was over, often it was for five years, those workers could return home or if they so desired settle down in the colonies they had gone to as workmen. They could become naturalized citizens of these colonies; they could acquire land and become farmers or could settle down as traders and businessmen or they could choose any other profession that suited them
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