Editing History of Uganda (section)

== Protectorate (1894–1961) ==
{{Further|Uganda Protectorate}}
In the 1890s, 32,000 labourers from [[British India]] were [[Indian diaspora in East Africa|recruited to East Africa]] under [[indentured labour]] contracts to construct the [[Uganda Railway]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/762515.stm | title=Kenya's Asian heritage on display | publisher=[[BBC]] | last=Evans | first=Ruth | date=24 May 2000 | access-date=18 January 2017}}</ref> Most of the surviving Indians returned home, but 6,724 decided to remain in [[East Africa]] after the line's completion.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theeagora.com/the-lunatic-express-a-photo-essay-on-the-uganda-railway/ | title=THE LUNATIC EXPRESS – A PHOTO ESSAY ON THE UGANDA RAILWAY. | publisher=[[Thee Agora]] | last=Chao | date=26 October 2014 | access-date=18 January 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422095958/http://www.theeagora.com/the-lunatic-express-a-photo-essay-on-the-uganda-railway/ | archive-date=22 April 2016 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Subsequently, some became traders and took control of [[cotton gin]]ning and sartorial retail.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/working-papers/working-paper-draft-3-stewart-west.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930230140/http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/working-papers/working-paper-draft-3-stewart-west.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=30 September 2015 | title=Policing, Colonial Life and Decolonisation in Uganda, 1957–1960 | publisher=The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Working Paper No. 03 | last=West | first=Stewart | date=February 2012 | pages=3–4}}</ref>

From 1900 to 1920, a [[African trypanosomiasis|sleeping sickness]] [[epidemic]] in the southern part of Uganda, along the north shores of Lake Victoria, killed more than 250,000 people.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/4/pdfs/02-0626.pdf | title=Reanalyzing the 1900–1920 Sleeping Sickness Epidemic in Uganda | publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | location=US | journal=Emerging Infectious Diseases | last1=Fèvre | first1=E. M. | last2=Coleman | first2=P. G. | last3=Welburn | first3=S. C. | last4=Maudlin | first4=I. | date=April 2004 | volume=10 | issue=4 | pages=567–573 | doi=10.3201/eid1004.020626 | pmid=15200843 | access-date=18 January 2017| doi-access=free }}</ref> British administrators like [[George Wilson (Chief Colonial Secretary of Uganda)|George Wilson CB]] attempted to address the serious scale of the public health crisis in the intervening years.