Download or read book Bittersweet written by Brij V. Lal and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the 125th anniversary of the arrival of the first girmitayas in Fiji and introduces the reader to Indo-Fijians. Impoverished, but rich with the traditions of Indian culture, the girmitayas clung to their heritage while labouring under foreign and hostile conditions.

Download or read book Girmitiyas written by Brij V. Lal and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an imaginative and valuable contribution to the literature on Indian immigration. The many new insights it provides are of such importance that one hopes it will serve as a model for work on other indentured colonial populations. It is a "ground breaking work", a basic contribution to the scholarly literature on Indians in Fiji, especially because its wealth of statistical information on the origins of the immigrants and its coverage of the formal structure of the system which brought them to Fiji"--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Indians Culture in Fiji written by Bill Thomas and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Indians and Their Culture in Fiji written by Bill Thomas and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pacific Indians written by and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1981 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chalo Jahaji written by Brij V. Lal and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who wish to see the proper integration of their disciplines in a major historical work.” Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Download or read book Tears in Paradise written by Rajendra Prasad and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised Edition. TEARS IN PARADISE, extensively researched and eloquently written, is the history of our forefathers who were brought under the infamous indentured labour system to Fiji by the British Colonial authorities from 1879 to 1916. The saga of these young, mostly illiterate, simple rural folks, lured by false promises of an ever-elusive 'Paradise', needs to be read and remembered. The author has done a remarkable task of compiling the story of this Indian Diaspora, people defenceless under an alien and systematically inhumane system, yet preserving their culture while creating the wealth and beauty of the land they made their home.

Download or read book Crossing the Kala Pani written by Brij V. Lal and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peasants in the Pacific written by Adrian Mayer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Download or read book Fiji written by Allan Robert Kirk and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the history, geography and culture of Fiji. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.

Download or read book The Fiji Indians written by Kenneth L. Gillion and published by Canberra : Australian National University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The period 1920-1946 was an important one in the history of Fiji, of the Fiji Indians, and of Indians overseas in general. In 1920 the place of India in the Empire and the Indians in Fiji was undefined. The indenture system had been abolished, but it was not known whether further assisted Indian immigration would be possible and whether the Indians already in Fiji would stay or return to India. If they stayed, would they supplant the indigenous Fijians as the preponderant population of the islannds, and would the local European settlers be able to hold their own against them, or would Fiji be transformed into an area of Indian cultural, economic, and possibly even political dominance? In the period the question of whether the Indian challenge could be contained aroused intense anxiety and discord. The 'Indian problem' as it was popularly known - though it could as well have been called the European problem or the Fijian problem - was, in short, the principal question of Fiji history at that time."--Preface, P. VII.

Download or read book Indian Diaspora written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters presented in this volume represent a wide variety of Indian diasporic experiences. From indenture labour to the present day immigrations, Indian diasporic narrative is one that offers opportunities to evaluate afresh notions of ethnicity, race, caste, gender and religious diversity. From victim discourse to narratives of optimism and complexities of identity issues, the Indian diaspora has exhibited characteristics that enable us as scholars to construct theoretical views on the diaspora and migration. The cases included in this volume will illumine such theoretical ideas. The readers will certainly be able to appreciate the diversity and the depth of these narratives and gain insight into the social and cultural and religious world of the diaspora. Contributors are: Archana Kumar, Ram Narayan Tiwari, Ashutosh Kumar, Brij Vilash Lal, Inês Lourenço, Prea Persaud, Nalini Moodley, Carolyn V. Prorok, Thembisa Waetjen, Kalpana Hiralal, Sultan Khan, Shanta B Singh, Abdalla Khair Gabralla, Abul Fadl Mohsin Ebrahim, Sharmina Mawani, Anjoom Mukadam, Goolam Vahed, and P. Pratap Kumar.

Download or read book Fiji History Book written by Lanny Breister and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fiji Indian diaspora developed with people of Indian origin leaving Fiji, mainly following the racially inspired coups of 1987 and 2000, to settle primarily in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Canada. Smaller numbers have settled in other Pacific islands, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. Indians from all over India were initially brought to Fiji as indentured laborers to work on sugar cane plantations. Between 1879 and 1916, a total of 60,000 Indians arrived in Fiji. Approximately 25,000 of these returned to India. From 1900 onwards, some Indians arrived as free immigrants, who were mostly from the provinces of Gujarat, Sindh, and Punjab. This book reveals the horrific treatment of Indian indentured workers (Girmitiyas) in Fiji by the British from 1879-1919. Indenture system (Girmit) under which they were recruited was slavery by another name

Download or read book East Indian and Fijian in Fiji written by Sylvester Maxwell Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Colour Culture Conflict written by Alexander Mamak and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1978 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph based on a thesis on pluralistic race relations and conflict in suva, Fiji - discusses the impact of rural migration, social integration, social participation and social implications, covers urban area living conditions, occupational structure, the role of trade unions, educational aspects, religious practices, voluntary organizations, the role of political partys and includes a summary and conclusion. Bibliography pp. 198 to 203, diagrams, maps, photographs, references and statistical tables.

Download or read book Body Self and Society written by Anne E. Becker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and American society, arguing that the motivation of Americans to work on their bodies' shapes as a personal endeavor is permitted by their notion that the self is individuated and autonomous. On the other hand, because Fijians concern themselves with the cultivation of social relationships largely expressed through nurturing and food exchange, there is a vested interest in cultivating others' bodies rather than one's own.

Download or read book My Twenty one Years in the Fiji Islands And The Story of the Haunted Line written by Totaram Sanadhya and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Totaram Sanadhya came to Fiji as a ginnitiya, or indentured labourer, in 1893. In 1914, he returned to India and together with Benarsides Chaturvedi wrote this book, a powerful indictment of the indentured labour system and the treatment of Indians in Fiji. ... It was one of the most frequently used sources of information and argument during the public movement in Inmdia that led to the abolition of indenture in the 1910s; the movement Gandhi later called the first national sayagraba. ... [This] volume also includes an English translation of The story of the haunted line: a moving story of a man saved from fear and despair by Hindu devotion and the friendship of ethnic Fijians."--Back cover.