{"id":89392,"date":"2020-01-10T15:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T10:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12838"},"modified":"2020-01-10T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T10:10:51","slug":"explainedwho-was-manilal-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explainedwho-was-manilal-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained:Who was Manilal Doctor?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently,January 8 was observed as the death anniversary of Manilal Doctor who was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and is also known for his efforts towards helping abolish the indentured labour system.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About indentured labour system:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 1833,the British Parliament has banned slavery and the practice became illegal throughout the Empire.&nbsp;<\/li><li>However,to maintain the supply of labour in their territories,colonial authorities effectively replaced slavery with the indentured labour system.<\/li><li>The \u2018indenture\u2019 (meaning contract) system required Indians to sign a legal agreement stating their consent to move abroad for a minimum of five years to work mainly on sugar estates.<\/li><li>Many were lured to distant lands, such as the Caribbean, South Africa, R\u00e9union, Mauritius, Malaysia, and Fiji where they ended up living in miserable conditions.<\/li><li>In the mid 19th century, over 35 lakh Indians were transported to British, French and Dutch colonies around the world.The system was officially banned in 1917.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did Manilal Doctor helped in ending the indentured labour system?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Mauritius(1907-1911):<\/strong>He organised the Indian community in the Mauritius which consisted of indentured and non-indentured workers.He founded Hindustani newspaper in Mauritius and also helped establish the Arya Samaj in Mauritius.<\/li><li><strong>Fiji (1912-1920):<\/strong>He emerged as the leader of the Indian community in Fiji.He started \u2018The Indian Settler\u2019 newspaper and also helped set up the Indian Imperial Association.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently,January 8 was observed as the death anniversary of Manilal Doctor who was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and is also known for his efforts towards helping abolish the indentured labour system. Facts: About indentured labour system: In 1833,the British Parliament has banned slavery and the practice became illegal throughout the Empire.&nbsp; However,to maintain&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explainedwho-was-manilal-doctor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained:Who was Manilal Doctor?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6836],"class_list":["post-89392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-manilal-doctor","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704851100},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}