Slavery in India continued through the 18th- and 19th-century. During colonial times Indians were taken into different parts of the world as slaves by the British East India Company, and the British Empire. Over a million indentured labourers also called girmitiyas from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were taken as slave labourers to European colonies of British and Dutch in Fiji, South Africa, and Trinidad & Tobago. The Portuguese imported Africans into their Indian colonies on the Konkan coast between about 1530 and 1740. Slavery was abolished in the possessions of the East India Company by the Indian Slavery Act, 1843.