Indian indenture system
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The Indian indenture system was an ongoing system of indenture
Indenture
An indenture is a legal contract reflecting a debt or purchase obligation, specifically referring to two types of practices: in historical usage, an indentured servant status, and in modern usage, an instrument used for commercial debt or real estate transaction.-Historical usage:An indenture is a...

 by which thousands of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

ns were transport
Transport
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ed to various colonies of Europe
Europe
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an powers to provide labour for the (mainly sugar) plantations. It started from the end of slavery in 1833 and continued until 1920.
On 18 January 1826, the Government of the French
France
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 Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
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 island of Réunion
Réunion
Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...

 laid down terms for the introduction of Indian labourers to the colony.
Quotations

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.

Ali, A Hundred Sayings

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

Thomas Carlyle, Rectorial Address at Edinburgh, 2nd April 1886

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, 1950

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Robert J. Hanlon, Murphy's Law book two: More reasons why things go wrong! (1980) ISBN 0843106743 by Arthur Bloch|Arthur Bloch page 52.  

"Folly is as great as the sea. It can compass anything."

Antef, Nomarch|Nomarch of Thebes, Egypt|Thebes, in Bolesław Prus's novel Pharaoh (novel)|Pharaoh (1895), chapter 61.

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.

Ed Solomon|Ed Solomon, screenplay, Men in Black

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, Pt. ii

Weapons-Grade Stupidity: Tech-support slang for customer intelligence that is so low it poses a severe hazard to those who come in contact with it.

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