Migration & Empire
For roughly forty years, Singapore was governed from which country?
India / British India
Were Indian labourers in Singapore mainly employed in urban work or plantation agriculture?
Urban work
Which merchant group became especially associated with moneylending in Singapore?
The Chettiars
Which road later became the centre of what we know as Little India?
Serangoon Road
Which city governed the Straits Settlements before 1867: London or Calcutta?
Calcutta
Under which recruitment system did a recruiter also become the worker's foreman?
The Kangani system
What was a kittangi?
A combined office and living quarters
Tanjong Pagar and Keppel were mainly associated with what kind of work?
Dock, wharf and ship-repair labour
Name one major push factor that encouraged South Asian labourers to migrate.
Poverty - Debt - Famine - Lack of village jobs
Under indenture, how long was a worker normally bound to one employer according to the presentation?
Five or ten years
Which streets were strongly associated with the Chulia Tamil Muslim traders?
Chulia Street and Market Street
Which migrant group arrived with Raffles in 1819 as Singapore’s first garrison?
Sepoys
Which type of migrant was attracted by trade opportunities and family credit rather than poverty and famine?
Merchants
How many Indian convicts were on the island by 1860?
2,275 (+/-300)
Which two groups dominated Singapore and Malaya’s post-war wholesale textile trade?
Sindhis and Sikhs
Which community became strongly associated with policing in Singapore?
Sikhs / Sikh policemen
In what year were the Straits Settlements transferred from British Indian administration to the Colonial Office?
1867
What was the name given to the Malay-Indian community partly formed when freed Indian convicts married Malay women?
Jawi Pekan
In 1963, approximately what percentage of Singapore’s registered moneylenders were Indian?
80% (+/-10%)
According to the presentation, roughly how many Indian women were there for every 1,000 Indian men during the early twentieth century?
About 200 / fewer than 200