On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM, salil tripathi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> And ec(n)r prevented school-drop-out artists from travelling, since if you >> hadn't finished hi school, assumption was that sarkar maibaap would be >> needed to look after you and decide if you were eligible to travel abroad. > > > I know. The EC(N)R regime probably goes back to the migration of indentured > laborers to the colonies.
It was also justified on the grounds of preventing the bride and servant slave trades - to prevent unscrupulous agents from shuffling the uneducated out to the bad lands.
