Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Aapravasi Ghat' has mentioned 'British Empire' in the following places:
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[1] From 1849 to 1923, half a million Indian indentured labourers passed through the Immigration Depot, to be transported to plantations throughout the British Empire. | WIKI |
In 1810, during the Napoleonic Wars, Mauritius passed to British hands, as confirmed in the Treaty of Paris,[11] at a time when the British Empire was expanding its influence in the Indian Ocean region. | WIKI |
[14] As a result, the government of the British Empire conceived of a plan to replace the former enslaved Africans with labourers from other parts of the world. | WIKI |
The high number of indentured labourers passing through the facility, to be transported to the various territories of the British Empire, proved to be an endless supply stream of cheap labour. | WIKI |
It immediately spread throughout the colonies of the British Empire, and was imitated by other European powers, while the Indian labor force was also employed beyond the sugarcane fields, in such workplaces as mines and even railways. | WIKI |
In total, 1.2 million Indian migrants were handled by emigration depots worldwide, becoming the global working class of the British Empire. | WIKI |
Thus, the Immigration Depot is considered to be the site where the modern, large-scale indentured labour diaspora began[6]xe2x80x94the system didn't only sustain the plantation economies of the British Empire, but also resulted in the transplantation of cultures and shaping of the national identity of former colonies. | WIKI |
This experiment was initiated by the British Government, after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834, to demonstrate the superiority of xe2x80x98freexe2x80x99 over slave labour in its plantation colonies. | UNESCO |