Download or read book Emigration of Indian Indentured Labour to the Danish West Indian Island of St. Croix 1863-68 written by Kalyan Kumar Sircar and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout most of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries, sugar planters in the colonies of Britain, France and Holland obtained their labour from Indian under a government-sponsored scheme of indentures. The planters of St. Croix, one of the Danish West Indian islands, attempted to solve their labour problem in a similar way, and in 1863 brought 321 Indian labourers to work on the sugar plantations. But the experiment with Indian labourers was not successful, and there was no further recruitment from India. This essay deals with some of the aspects of Indian emigration to St. Croix and examines the circumstances which leld to the failure of the project... ."--Introduction (P. [1]).