Original sentence: In the 1890s, 32,000 labourers from British India were brought to Southeast Africa under indentured labour contracts to work on the construction of the Uganda Railway.They were brought there by the British Empire from British India to do clerical work in Imperial service, or unskilled/semi-skilled manual labour such as construction or farm work
Edited sentence: In the 1890s, 32,000 labourers from British India were taken to Southeast Africa under indentured labour contracts to work on the construction of the Uganda Railway.They were taken there by the British Empire from British India to do clerical work in Imperial service, or unskilled/semi-skilled manual labour such as construction or farm work