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…replaced by indentured laborers from India. The country’s modern-day Indo-Pakistani population stems from this program of replacing slavery with indentured servitude (deemed Britain’s “Great Experiment”); by the time it ended in the 1920s, almost a half million indentured laborers had come from India to work on the sugar plantations. The…

…and health of the large Indian population of Fiji, but the increase in this population raised the difficult question of the native Fijians’ future. They played a minor part in the economic life of the colony, and the official policy was to keep them within their villages under a separate…

South Africans of Indian descent, who were classified under apartheid as Asian, form a minority. They went to South Africa originally as indentured workers imported by the British to the former Natal colony beginning in the 1850s and were followed by a smaller group of immigrant traders later…