Many of them worked in Malaysias rubber plantations after they - TopicsExpress



          

Many of them worked in Malaysias rubber plantations after they migrated during British colonial rule. For generations, the estates provided thousands of indian families with housing, jobs and schools. But that all changed in the 1970s when new economic policies saw private companies take over the estates, replacing rubber with oil palm and hiring cheaper foreign labour. Today, within one generation, most estate Indians have been forced into urban centres, leaving them unskilled and trapped in poverty.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:42:15 +0000

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