Sentence examples for indian labourers from inspiring English sources

Most of the country's construction is carried out by 100,000 Indian labourers.

Thousands of Indian labourers were brought into the protectorate to construct the railway.

In colonial times Indian labourers and traders spread across the world, from Fiji to the Caribbean.

Half its people are Hindus, descended from Indian labourers brought over when Britain ruled the island.

He had meetings with Gujarati merchants, indentured Indian labourers and white officials.

Hundreds of Kenyan and Indian labourers died during construction, mostly from disease.

Photographs: Jason Reed/Reuters Updated at 6.01pm BST 5.48pm BST An Indian labourer sits on a cart at the spice market in the old quarter of New Delhi.

In Trinidad and Guyana, descendants of Indian indentured labourers outnumber the black population.

About 43% of the former British colony's 750,000 inhabitants are descended from Indian indentured labourers; 31% from African slaves.

Guadeloupe, where African slaves, Indian indentured labourers and the European colonisers met, has a complex and fascinating culture to decipher.

Trinidad's population of 1.3m is split roughly equally between the descendants of African slaves and those of Indian indentured labourers.