How did colonial laws favour the owners and managers of the tea industry?

Colonial laws favoured the owners and managers of the tea industry.

a. The colonial plantation laws were mostly based on indentured labour. Labourers were sent to Assam under contract for a couple of years. The government gave an advantage to the planters by allowing them to penalize the labourers for non-fulfilment of their contracts.

b. In order to lure plantation workers to strange, unfamiliar lands plagued by strange fevers and famines, the owners were granted permission to resort to fraudulent practices.

c. The Inland Emigration Act of 1859 took away the rights of workers to roam around freely according to their will and prevented them from going back home.