alleryWhy did Indian indenture migration end in 1921?
AWages doubled in India
BNationalist protests + colonial reform pressure
CAll Indians were converted to migrate to Britain
DThe first World War halted ocean shipping
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Nationalist protests + colonial reform pressure
1. syllabus covers the abolition of indenture.
2. Indian nationalist leaders opposed indenture as a 'new system of slavery' on grounds of cruelty and exploitation.
3. The system was abolished in 1921 under combined nationalist and humanitarian pressure.
_Source: syllabus History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 3 "The Making of a Global World", §Indenture ¶6_
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