According to the Indentured Labour System, the coolie (the term applied to an Indian indentured labourer) had to work in jail-like condition, was punishable by forfeiture of wages or imprisonment
(a) negligence of duty or refusal to attend to work
(b) insolence or disobedience of orders or other misconduct
(c) quitting service before the expiry of the contract.

The outbreak of two famines (1833 and 1843) forced the people, without any prompting from the government, to leave for Ceylon to work as coolies in coffee and tea plantations under indentured labour system

1. The industrial revolution in textile production that took place in England reversed this relationship for the first time.
2. India was systematically de-industrialized.
3. Rather than being the world's leading exporter of cloth and textiles, India became a market for Lancashire cottons.
4. Cheap machine-made British goods led to the flooding of lndian markets.
5. Indian cotton piece goods began to lose ground gradually given that machine-made goods were more durable and cost less.

Pindaris:
1. Pindaris were freebooters composed of both Muslim and Hindu bands.
2. The Subsidiary Alliance of the Company had led to the disbandment of thousands of soldiers and most of them joined them and swelled their numbers in central India.
3. The British proclaimed Pindari War.
Thuggees:
1. The Thugs were robbers operating between Delhi and Agra from the fourteenth century.
2. They were bound together by oaths and ritual and murdered unsuspecting travellers in the name of the goddess Kali.
3. Bentinck placed William Sleeman in charge of the operation to eliminate the Thuggee menace.
4. Between 1831 and 1837 more than three thousand Thugs were convicted.

1. 'Settlement' refers to the assessment and fixing of the quantum of land revenue to be paid by each zamindar to the government.
2. For Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, this was fixed permanently.
3. Thus the zamindars who were originally tax collectors acquired hereditary rights over the land assigned by the government.