The Making of a Global World Test - 3

1. The first is the flow of trade which in the nineteenth century referred largely to trade in goods.
2. The second is the flow of labour – the migration of people in search of employment.
3. The third is the movement of capital for short-term or long-term investments over long distances.

Corn Laws : The laws allowing the British government to restrict the import of Corn were popularly known as “CORN LAWS”.

1. These laws were abolished
2. Because of restriction of imports lead to high food prices.
3. Unhappy with high food prices, industrialists and urban dwellers forced the abolition of the Corn Laws.

Rinderpest is a disease which affects cattle.
The example of rinderpest in Africa shows that even a cattle disease can widely alter the power equations in a geographical area

Rinderpest is a disease which affects cattle.
Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880s. It came with the horses which were imported from British Asia.

The Europeans applied various ways to force the people to work. Some of them are as follows:

1. Heavy taxes were imposed which could only be paid by working on plantations and in mines.
2. Inheritance laws were changed and only one member of the family was allowed to inherit land. This forced others into the labour market.
3. Mineworkers were confined to the campus and were not allowed to move freely.

The main destinations of Indian indentured migrants were the Caribbean islands (mainly Trinidad, Guyana and Surinam), Mauritius and Fiji. Tamil migrants went to Ceylon and Malaya.

Shikaripuri shroffs and Nattukottai Chettiars were among the groups of bankers and traders from India. They financed export agriculture in Southern and Central Asia. They had their own sophisticated system of money transfer to different parts of the world and even in India.

Shikaripuri shroffs and Nattukottai Chettiars were among the groups of bankers and traders from India. They financed export agriculture in Southern and Central Asia. They had their own sophisticated system of money transfer to different parts of the world and even in India.

The main destinations of Indian indentured migrants were the Caribbean islands (mainly Trinidad, Guyana and Surinam), Mauritius and Fiji. Tamil migrants went to Ceylon and Malaya.Tamil migrants went to Ceylon and Malaya as Indentured workers.

Nineteenth-century indenture has been described as a ‘new system of slavery’ :

1. Often migrants were not even told that they were to embark on a long sea voyage. Sometimes agents even forcibly abducted less willing migrants.
2. On arrival at the plantations, labourers found conditions to be different from what they had imagined.
3. Living and working conditions were harsh, and there were few legal rights.