British Agents Exploit Indian Laborers

Subject

Indian National Movement

Chapter

Advent of the Europeans

  • Kanganis (recruitment agents) tricked and kidnapped landless laborers
  • First group of 150 indentured laborers taken from Thanjavur to Ceylon in 1828
  • All laborers in initial group deserted the coffee plantations
  • British introduced criminal laws in 1830s to prevent worker desertion