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Field name | Value |
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Title | Correspondence Relating to the Report of the Committee on Emigration from India to the Crown Colonies and Protectorates |
Date | 27 Aug 1910 - 31 Dec 1913 |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Reference | CO 885/21/17 |
Library / Archive | The National Archives |
Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Subjects Affecting Colonies Generally, Confidential Print |
Description | Miscellaneous No. 259, marked confidential. The contents are laid out by serial number, recipient, despatch number, date and subject. Letters mostly relate to regulation and government agendas on immigration of indentured labourers from India. Several letters refer to outbreaks of illness and disease on board 'Cooley' ships travelling from India to Jamaica, Trinidad and Fiji. |
Series Description | This series contains confidential print on subjects affecting colonies generally. |
Theme(s) | Politics, Legislation and Governance; Colonisation Companies and Emigration Societies |
Country (from) | India |
Country (to) | Mauritius; Trinidad; Fiji; Jamaica; British Guiana |
Ports | Calcutta, Madras, India |
Nationality | English; European; Indian; Asian |
Ships | Indus; Mutlah |
People | McNie, J; Coombs, W H; Marsden, A; Lal, Chimman; Harcourt, L; Ritchie, R; Buxton, Travers; Marquess of Crewe (Crewe-Milnes, Robert) |
Keywords | emigration, government, legislation, immigration, child labour, children, indentured labour, immigration agent, agent, colony, Protector of emigration, women, regulations, Aborigines Protection Society, labour, shipping, surgeon, medical treatment, return passage, administration, finance, passage money, telegram, expenses, crown lands, journey conditions, disease, housing, medicine, prohibition, law |
Language | English |
Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |