Talk:Indian indenture system

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T.S.Swaminathan

One Indian who fought against Indentured Labour System is Shri.T.S.Swaminathan. He traveled by ship to all the places where Indians toiled as Indentured Labourer and reported it in the paper "Indian Emigrants" published by him. He was the one instrumental in sending Mahathma Gandhi to South Africa. Copies of some issues of his paper are available in the Library of Thesophical Society in Chennai. He is one of the tall personality which the Historians in Tamilnadu have forgotten conveniently. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sailapathi (talk • contribs) 10:38, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

this article is gibberish

Right from the opening paragraph it's POV, unreferenced crap. This article makes wikipedia look stupid 86.188.127.154 (talk) 13:43, 4 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma) & Sri Lanka

These three countries received Indians under a different system - the Kangani system. This system was NOT part of the Indian Indenture system --Theudariks 2.0 (talk) 00:47, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lacks overall view

The article does not speak much about the atrocities committed on the indentured labourers at various stages of the indenture - during recruitment, during journey and during the indenture period. Hence it lacks the completeness. __ Chaduvari (talk) 08:07, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The title is confusing

Why it's called The Indian Indentured system rather a british indentured system? Just curious. 103.140.231.100 (talk) 01:10, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Because it was Indians who were the ones in indentured and taken to various British colonies (and Dutch colonies; Suriname and, briefly, St Croix) Theudariks 2.0 (talk) 21:26, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Indentured servitude happened in Mauritius, Fiji and the Caribbean Caribbean History 101 (talk) 06:54, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Updated the intro paragraph

I have updated the introductory part of the Wiki to reflect the fact that although labour colonies in their own right, the people who went to Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Sri Lanka were Kangani labourers, a system distinct to the indentured labourer system. I have also noted the fact that those who went to Kenya and Uganda to work on the railway weren't actually part of the indentured labour system either.

The system was unique in that these people had to sign very specific contracts and became known as Girmityas. The other labour recruitment systems were distinct and it's wrong to lump them all in together. Theudariks 2.0 (talk) 21:38, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Major expansion: Living & working conditions, recruitment, legacy sections

I recently made a significant expansion to several sections of this article to improve depth and reliability. These sections were previously brief or lacked sufficient citations, and I’ve worked to bring them in line with Wikipedia’s core content policies:

-WP:RS – Reliable sourcing

-WP:NPOV – Neutral point of view

-WP:V – Verifiability

The areas I expanded include:

-Living and working conditions

-Recruitment and contracts

-Treatment of women and families

-Health, mortality, and disease

-Oversight and reforms

-Legacy and historical significance

My sources are primarily academic secondary sources, such as Hugh Tinker (A New System of Slavery, 1974), Walter Look Lai (Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar, 2004), Brij V. Lal (Girmitiyas, 2004), Gaiutra Bahadur (Coolie Woman, 2013), and Richard B. Allen (Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius, 1999).

I welcome feedback on specific sections or suggestions for improvements. Please let me know if there are any concerns, and I’ll be happy to work collaboratively to address them.

Thanks! Marvelcanon1 (talk) 14:50, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]