Even today there are up to twenty-seven million people enslaved in some form of bonded labour. This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding ...

A case was registered against Rashida under various sections of the Bonded Labour System Abolition Act of 1976, the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita (BNS), and the Juvenile Justice Act. Rashida was ...

Our correspondent explains how an exploitative labor ... of bonded labor. None of the companies we spoke to would comment on that. Maharashtra accounts for a third of sugar production in India ...

These are the bonded child laborers of India. This report is about them. “Bonded child labor” refers to the phenomenon of children working in conditions of servitude in order to pay off a debt.

The entire point of these institutions, set up by the British colonial administration ... a historian of modern India with an interest in socioeconomic and labour history. He is currently teaching ...

Labour MPs like Reginald Sorensen highlighted abuses of colonial officials and the party embraced Congress activists like V K Krishna Menon, who went on to serve as independent India’s first ...

Because the cost of escaping India’s cane fields is often even ... All of those abuses can be linked to what is known as bonded labor, a system in which workers are perpetually in debt to ...