Indians

• Why did indians settle? ECO AND TRADE

  Employees of the East India Company settled for several years in India with their families.

  When returned - often brought their Indian servants, like ayahs (nannies) and lascars (sailors).
• Indian: EXPERIENCES

  POSITIVES

  some lascars settled in port towns and either worked on different ships or found labouring work

  some servants were treated respectfully, especially children
• Indian: EXPERIENCES 


  NEGATIVES

  • treatment could be violent and cruel -servants sometimes given false promises of returning to India
  • some servants left at arrival ports in favour of English servants or discarded later (e.g. ayahs after the children grew up)
• Why did indians settle? ECO/TRADE


  • increased trade took English people to India where INDAN men worked in clerical jobs and INDAN women worked as servants to Eng families
  • some Indians, especially Ayahs came back with families they ere working for
• Why did indians settle? ECO AND TRADE


  Some Indians worked on the ships sailing between England and India - many settled in English ports looking for better life