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The people who went to East Africa to work on the railway or to British Malaya (Malaysia & Singapore) under the Kangani system were NOT Girmityas. The term itself is a corruption of "agreement" as heard by those labourers who went to certain colonies from the Bhojpuri and Awadhi-speaking areas of India, under the main system of indentured labourer as set out by the British to work on the sugar plantations. And as a matter of fact, the term wasn't even used in Guyana!
The other labourers have nothing to do with this term. It's frustrating that simply being of Indian descent is enough to conflate each of these groups of people's unique identities together! Theudariks 2.0 (talk) 14:53, 7 April 2025 (UTC)Reply
