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  2. Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act, 1979 - Wikipedia

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    The employment system of interstate migrant labour was an exploitative system prevalent more or less all over India. It was rampantly institutionalized in Orissa and in some other states. In Orissa the migrant labour (called dadan labour locally) through contractors or agents (called Sardars / Khatedars) are sent for work outside the state in ...

  3. Peopling of India - Wikipedia

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    Lazaridis et al. (2016) notes that the demographic impact of steppe related populations on South Asia was substantial and forms a major component in northern India. [85] Lazaridis et al.'s 2016 study estimates 6.5–50.2% steppe related admixture in all modern South Asians with higher caste and Indo-Aryan speaking groups having more steppe ...

  4. Human migration - Wikipedia

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    Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, [1] with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (external migration), but internal migration (within a single country) is the dominant form of human migration globally.

  5. Immigration to India - Wikipedia

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    An 1875 painting of rugby being played by Europeans in Calcutta (today Kolkata). Western sports were first adopted in India during British rule. [6]The British colonial presence in India varied in characteristics over time; British people generally stayed in the colony on a temporary basis, and were sometimes aiming to avoid local cultural habits and contact. [7]

  6. Indo-Aryan migrations - Wikipedia

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    The migration into northern India was not a large-scale immigration, but may have consisted of small groups [20] [note 2] which were genetically diverse. [ clarification needed ] Their culture and language spread by the same mechanisms of acculturalisation, and the absorption of other groups into their patron-client system.

  7. Malabar Migration - Wikipedia

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    The migration started from early decades of the 20th century and continued well into the 1970s and 1980s. The first organized migration to Malabar was envisaged by the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam, Knanaya Catholic under the direction of the then Bishop Mar Alexander Chulaparambil in 1943. Two settlements or colonies were started.

  8. Timeline of major famines in India during British rule

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    The timeline of major famines in India during British rule covers major famines on the Indian subcontinent from 1765 to 1947. The famines included here occurred both in the princely states (regions administered by Indian rulers), British India (regions administered either by the British East India Company from 1765 to 1857; or by the British Crown, in the British Raj, from 1858 to 1947) and ...

  9. Emigration Act, 1983 - Wikipedia

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    The Act imposed a requirement of obtaining emigration clearance (also called POE clearance) from the office of Protector of Emigrants (POE), Ministry of External Affairs for people emigrating from India for work. As of 2017, this requirement applies only for people going to one of 18 listed countries.