AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
(B) Inland Emigration Act, 1859
Under this Act, plantation workers in Assam were not permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission from the authorities.
The source passage (Section 2.3, Chapter 2) explicitly states: "Under the Inland Emigration Act of 1859, plantation workers were not permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission." The other options — Rowlatt Act, Defence of India Act, and Indian Councils Act — served entirely different purposes and are common distractors in this topic.