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The 'hookworm' problem among indentured Indians in the West Indies is significant because it:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C.
1. NCERT details the hardships of indentured labour.
2. Hookworm — common in tropical plantations — caused severe anaemia and weakened workers.
3. Combined with cholera, dysentery and overcrowding, mortality led to abolition of indenture in 1921.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 3 "The Making of a Global World", §Indenture ¶5_
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