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:*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_India French India] | :*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_India French India] | ||
:*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_India Danish India] | :*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_India Danish India] | ||
====Refugees in India==== | ====Slavery in India==== | ||
*Slavery existed in Portuguese India after the 16th century. | |||
*The Dutch, too, largely dealt in slaves. They were mainly Abyssian, known in India as Habshis or Sheedes. The Dutch Indian Ocean slave trade was primarily mediated by the Dutch East India Company. | |||
*In the Indian subcontinent, '''Arakan/Bengal, Malabar, and Coromandel''' remained the most important source of forced labour until the 1660s. Between 1626 and 1662, the Dutch exported on an average 150–400 slaves annually from the Arakan-Bengal coast. During the first thirty years of Batavia's existence, Indian and Arakanese slaves provided the main labour force of the company's Asian headquarters. | |||
*The volume of the total Dutch Indian Ocean slave trade has been estimated to be about 15–30% of the Atlantic slave trade. | |||
*See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_India#18th_to_20th_century "Estimates of slaves held in various East India Company territories and Native Kingdoms in the 1830s".] | |||
===Refugees in India==== | |||
*Under Indian law, multiple groups are generally accepted as legal refugees. These include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamils Sri Lankan Tamils,] Indians who were affected by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda 1972 expulsion of Ugandans of Indian origin,] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_religions Indic (Indian)-origin] religious minorities. As the birthplace of many religions, most prominently '''Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism''', India accepts followers of Indic-origin religions who are persecuted in their home states as refugees, most notably victims of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India Partition of India] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide 1971 Bangladesh genocide.] | *Under Indian law, multiple groups are generally accepted as legal refugees. These include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamils Sri Lankan Tamils,] Indians who were affected by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda 1972 expulsion of Ugandans of Indian origin,] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_religions Indic (Indian)-origin] religious minorities. As the birthplace of many religions, most prominently '''Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism''', India accepts followers of Indic-origin religions who are persecuted in their home states as refugees, most notably victims of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India Partition of India] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide 1971 Bangladesh genocide.] | ||
*Currently, there are around 8,000 to 11,684 '''Afghan refugees''' in India, most of whom are '''Hindus and Sikhs.''' | *Currently, there are around 8,000 to 11,684 '''Afghan refugees''' in India, most of whom are '''Hindus and Sikhs.''' | ||