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The correct label and identity for Indo-Fijians has historically been debated. Common labels such as Fijian Indian, as Fiji-Indian and Indo-Fijian have been used inter-changeably. These labels have proved culturally and politically controversial, and finding a single label of identification for those with South Asian ancestry in Fiji has ...
Although South Indians were used to working overseas, most found it difficult to adjust to the Fiji Indian society already established in Fiji. Language was a major problem as they had to learn Hindustani, the language of the plantation. During indenture, there was a high suicide rate amongst South Indians.
South Indians in Fiji - history, development and Then India Sanmarga Ikya (TISI) Sangam; Kevin Miller, A Community of Sentiment: Indo-Fijian Music and Identity Discourse in Fiji, p. 84, at Google Books, Chapter 4 - The Development of Hinduism in Fiji's Colonial Period; Fiji Temples Torched, December 1989
Indeed, just over twelve years passed between the voyage of the first ship carrying indentured Indians to Fiji (the Leonidas, in 1879) and the first ship to take Indians back (the British Peer, in 1892). Given the steady influx of ships carrying indentured Indians to Fiji up until 1916, repatriated Indians generally boarded these same ships on ...
Girmitiyas : the origins of the Fiji Indians. Lautoka, Fiji: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies. ISBN 978-0-8248-2265-1. Gaiutra Bahadur (2014). Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. The University of Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-21138-1; Carter, Marina; Torabully, Khal (2002). Coolitude : an anthology of the Indian labour diaspora. London: Anthem.
First Indian appointed to Legislative Council. 1917: Count Felix von Luckner arrested on Wakaya Island. 1918: 14% of the population killed by the Spanish flu pandemic (within sixteen days). 1928: First flight from Hawaii lands at Suva. 1929: Wealthy Indians enfranchised for the first time; Indian representation in the Legislative Council made ...
On 9 December 1934, the Indian Association was reformed, this time as a successor to the controversial Fiji Indian National Congress (formed in 1929), to safeguard and further the political rights of the Indian community in Fiji. [3] Its president was A. D. Patel and Vishnu Deo was its secretary. [4]
The Sikhs, who arrived in Fiji at almost the same time as the Gujaratis, also maintained their identity, but unlike the Gujaratis, took Hindu spouses and interacted with other Indians, mainly as farmers. The Gujaratis, on the other hand, maintained their own language and caste and remained aloof from girmits, while residing mainly in towns.