They Dropped Like Flies

Q.

Imagine that you are an indentured Indian labourer in the Caribbean. Drawing from the details in this chapter, write a letter to your family describing your life and feelings.

Q. Amidst the hard and ill-treated working conditions, people from different cultures collaborated in the Caribbean Islands. Select the correct options from the following:

1. Imam Husayn celebrated Muharram as a carnival.
2. Cultural fusion led to popular genre, Chutney music.
3. The workers went on vacation together.
4. The workers never got time for all this.

Q. Indentured labourers migrated to different countries like Sri Lanka and Africa. What was the reason for migration?

1. Rising land rents
2. Declining cottage industries
3. Spread of flu
4. Better life

Q. What was the name of the ship in which the first Indian indentured labourers arrived at Trinidad?

1. Fateh Toofan
2. Razack Fateh
3. Fateh Razack
4. Razack Toofan

Q. The inheritance laws were changed to force people into the labour market.

1. True
2. False

Q. When did the first Indian indentured labourers arrive at Trinidad?

1. 30April, 1855
2. 30 May, 1845
3. 30 May, 1835
4. 30 May, 1854

Q. Sri Lanka emerged as an independent country in the year _________.

1. 1942
2. 1944
3. 1947
4. 1948

Q. Indian labourers chose to migrate because they were unemployed, despite expecting to be treated badly by the colonisers.

1. True
2. False

Q. The Italians brought with them Rinderpest that spread like wildfire across Africa, affecting the cattles. How did the Europeans gain from the wildfire?

1. They got more meat.
2. They got natives to work for them.
3. The natives could focus on growing crops.
4. The natives gave away their land to the Europeans.

Q. when land emigration on Act was launched

Q. how did rinderprest help europians to conquor the africa?

Q. Which disease that affected cattle was responsible for pushing the people of Africa into the labour markets?

1. Smallpox
2. Rinderpest
3. Measles
4. Chickenpox

Q.

Imagine that you are an indentured Indian labourer in the Caribbean. Drawing from the details in this chapter, write a letter to your family describing your life and feelings.