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Basu, Raj Sekhar. "Bhojpuri folk songs of Indians in Fiji." Studies in People's History 5, no. 1 (2018): 92–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2348448918759874.
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The export of Indian indentured labour to British oversea colonies containing sugar, cotton and indigo plantations began around mid-nineteenth century. One of the destinations was Fiji, the British island colony in the Pacific, to which the Indian labourers, men and women, mainly went from East UP and West Bihar where Bhojpuri was spoken. While archival documents can help us trace the fortunes of individuals, their own feelings and sentiments are best preserved in their songs orally carried from one mouth to another for decades. The earlier songs contain mournful dirges over separation, the misery of those whom they left behind and their own afflictions in Fiji’s harsh white-owned plantations. As the migrations ceased, the Fiji–Indian people’s interest shifted to restoring their connection with Hinduism and its customs, and this has become more prominent in later folk songs. The gender problem (women outnumbered by men) was severe earlier but has now eased as with the passage of generations, the sex ratio has normalised.
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Moller, Andersen N. "Cladistic biogeography of marine water striders (Insecta, Hemiptera) in the Indo-Pacific." Australian Systematic Botany 4, no. 1 (1991): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb9910151.
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More than 120 species of marine water striders (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha), representing three families and eight genera, are distributed throughout the lndo-Pacific region. They live in marine habitats such as mangroves, intertidal coral reef flats and the sea surface near coral and rocky coasts. Five species of sea skaters, Halobates (Gerridae), have colonised the surface of the open ocean. Adult marine water striders are wingless but may disperse along coasts, chains of islands and possibly across wider stretches of open sea. Although some species of coral bugs, Halovelia (Veliidae) and Halobates are widespread, most species of marine water striders have rather restricted distributions. Cladistic hypotheses are now available for the genera Halovelia, Xenobates (Veliidae) and Halobates. Based upon distributional data for about 110 species, a number of areas of endemism can be delimited within the Indo-Pacific region. The results of component analyses of taxon-area cladograms for several monophyletic species-groups of marine water striders are presented. The faunas of northern New Guinea, the Bismarck and Solomon Islands (Papuasia) are closely related and show much greater affinity with Maluku, Sulawesi and the Philippines than with the fauna of northern Australia. Relationships between the faunas of Papuasia + Sulawesi + the Philippines and those of Borneo + Jawa + Malaya are relatively weak. Marine water striders endemic to islands of the western Pacific show relationships among themselves and with Australia. Most marine water striders from the Indian Ocean (East Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Maldives) can be derived from the Indian-South-east Asian fauna. Composite faunas of marine water striders (either of different age or origin) are found in New Guinea, New Caledonia, Fiji Islands, the Philippines, tropical Australia and East Africa. The biogeography of marine water striders does not support the traditional division of the Indo- Pacific into the Ethiopian, Oriental and Australian regions. The distributional patterns are more compatible with a set of hierarchical relationships between more restricted areas of endemism.
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Southward, A. J., and W. A. Newman. "A review of some common Indo-Malayan and western Pacific species of Chthamalus barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia)." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 83, no. 4 (2003): 797–812. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315403007835h.
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The type specimens of the common tropical intertidal barnacles Chthamalus malayensis and C. moro, were re-investigated and compared with other specimens of Chthamalus from the Indian Ocean, Indo-Malaya, northern Australia, Vietnam, China and the western Pacific, using ‘arthropodal’ as well as shell characters. Chthamalus malayensis occurs widely in Indo-Malayan and tropical Australian waters. It ranges westwards in the Indian Ocean to East Africa and northwards in the Pacific to Vietnam, China and the Ryukyu Islands. Chthamalus malayensis has the arthropodal characters attributed to it by Pope (1965); conical spines on cirrus 1 and serrate setae with basal guards on cirrus 2. Chthamalus moro is currently fully validated only for the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Xisha (Paracel) Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, Fiji and Samoa. It is a small species of the ‘challengeri’ subgroup, lacking conical spines on cirrus 1 and bearing pectinate setae without basal guards on cirrus 2. It may be a ‘relict’ insular species. Chthamalus challengeri also lacks conical spines on cirrus 1 and has pectinate setae without basal guards on cirrus 2. Records of C. challengeri south of Japan are probably erroneous. However, there is an undescribed species of the ‘challengeri’ subgroup in the Indian Ocean, Indo-Malaya, Vietnam and southern China and yet more may occur in the western Pacific. The subgroups ‘malayensis’ and ‘challengeri’ require genetic investigation. Some comments are included on the arthropodal characters and geographical distributions of Chthamalus antennatus, C. dalli and C. stellatus.
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Brown, Gillian K., Daniel J. Murphy, James Kidman, and Pauline Y. Ladiges. "Phylogenetic connections of phyllodinous species of Acacia outside Australia are explained by geological history and human-mediated dispersal." Australian Systematic Botany 25, no. 6 (2012): 390. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb12027.
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Acacia sensu stricto is found predominantly in Australia; however, there are 18 phyllodinous taxa that occur naturally outside Australia, north from New Guinea to Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, south-western Pacific (New Caledonia to Samoa), northern Pacific (Hawaii) and Indian Ocean (Mascarene Islands). Our aim was to determine the phylogenetic position of these species within Acacia, to infer their biogeographic history. To an existing molecular dataset of 109 taxa of Acacia, we added 51 new accessions sequenced for the ITS and ETS regions of nuclear rDNA, including samples from 15 extra-Australian taxa. Data were analysed using both maximum parsimony and Bayesian methods. The phylogenetic positions of the extra-Australian taxa sampled revealed four geographic connections. Connection A, i.e. northern Australia?South-east Asia?south-western Pacific, is shown by an early diverging clade in section Plurinerves, which relates A. confusa from Taiwan and the Philippines (possibly Fiji) to A. simplex from Fiji and Samoa. That clade is related to A. simsii from southern New Guinea and northern Australia and other northern Australian species. Two related clades in section Juliflorae show a repeated connection (B), i.e. northern Australia?southern New Guinea?south-western Pacific. One of these is the ?A. auriculiformis clade', which includes A. spirorbis subsp. spirorbis from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands as sister to the Queensland species A. auriculiformis; related taxa include A. mangium, A. leptocarpa and A. spirorbis subsp. solandri. The ?A. aulacocarpa clade' includes A. aulacocarpa, A. peregrinalis endemic to New Guinea, A. crassicarpa from New Guinea and Australia, and other Australian species. Acacia spirorbis (syn. A. solandri subsp. kajewskii) from Vanuatu (Melanesia) is related to these two clades but its exact position is equivocal. The third biogeographic connection (C) is Australia?Timor?Flores, represented independently by the widespread taxon A. oraria (section Plurinerves) found on Flores and Timor and in north-eastern Queensland, and the Wetar island endemic A. wetarensis (Juliflorae). The fourth biogeographic connection (D), i.e. Hawaii?Mascarene?eastern Australia, reveals an extreme disjunct distribution, consisting of the Hawaiian koa (A. koa, A. koaia and A. kaoaiensis), sister to the Mascarene (R�union Island) species A. heterophylla; this clade is sister to the eastern Australian A. melanoxylon and A. implexa (all section Plurinerves), and sequence divergence between taxa is very low. Historical range expansion of acacias is inferred to have occurred several times from an Australian?southern New Guinean source. Dispersal would have been possible as the Australian land mass approached South-east Asia, and during times when sea levels were low, from the Late Miocene or Early Pliocene. The close genetic relationship of species separated by vast distances, from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, is best explained by dispersal by Austronesians, early Homo sapiens migrants from Asia.
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McDonald, John, and Ralph Shlomowitz. "Mortality on Convict Voyages to Australia, 1788–1868." Social Science History 13, no. 3 (1989): 285–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200016412.
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During the past two decades, there has been an outpouring of research on the seaboard mortality associated with intercontinental migration during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The focus of historical interest in this linkage between mortality and migration has been the Atlantic slave trade. We now have mortality rates on voyages from various regions in Africa to various destinations in the Americas, from the late seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century (see Curtin, 1968, 1969: 275-286; Klein and Engerman, 1976, 1979; Klein, 1978; Postma, 1979; Miller, 1981; Cohn and Jensen, 1982a, 1982b; Cohn, 1985; Eltis, 1984, 1987; Steckel and Jensen, 1986; Galenson, 1986). These slave studies have spawned renewed interest in the mortality associated with other seaborne populations, and mortality rates have been calculated on Dutch immigrant voyages to the East Indies during the eighteenth century, European convict and immigrant voyages to North America and European immigrant voyages to Australia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and Indian and Pacific Islander indentured labor voyages to Fiji and Queensland, Australia, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (see Riley, 1981; Eltis, 1983; Cohn, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988; Grubb, 1987; Ekirch, 1987; Morgan, 1985; Shlomowitz, 1986, 1987, 1989; McDonald and Shlomowitz, 1988, forthcoming).
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"Cercospora kikuchii. [Distribution map]." Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases, no. 1) (August 1, 1997). http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/dmpd/20066500733.
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Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Cercospora kikuchii (Tak. Matsumoto & Tomoy.) M.W. Gardner Fungi: Mitosporic fungi: Hyphomycetes Hosts: Soyabean (Glycine max). Information is given on the geographical distribution in EUROPE, France, Russian Far East, ASIA, Bangladesh, China, Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang, India, Sikkim, Iran, Japan, Korea Republic, Malaysia, Sarawak, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, AFRICA, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, NORTH AMERICA, Canada, Ontario, Quebec, USA, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, SOUTH AMERICA, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo, Colombia, OCEANIA, Fiji, Papua New Guinea.
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"Tomato ringspot virus. [Distribution map]." Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases, No.April (August 1, 2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/dmpd/20123172035.
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Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Tomato ringspot virus. Comoviridae: Nepovirus. Hosts: various, including Pelargonium, Rubus and Prunus species. Information is given on the geographical distribution in Europe (Belarus; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Italy; Lithuania; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Central Russia and Far East, Russia; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Sweden; and England and Wales, UK), Asia (Zhejiang, China; Himachal Pradesh, India; Iran; Israel; Hokkaido and Honshu, Japan; Jordan; Korea Republic; Oman; Pakistan; and Turkey), Africa (Egypt, Togo and Tunisia), North America (British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec, Canada; Mexico; and Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming), Central America and Caribbean (Puerto Rico), South America (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Peru; and Venezuela) and Oceania (South Australia, Fiji and New Zealand).
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"Tomato ringspot virus. [Distribution map]." Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases, No.April (July 1, 2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/dmpd/20153159080.
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Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Tomato ringspot virus. Picornavirales: Secoviridae: Nepovirus. Hosts: various including Pelargonium spp., Rubus spp. and Prunus spp. Information is given on the geographical distribution in Europe (Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Central Russia, Russian Far East, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, UK, England and Wales), Asia (China, Zhejiang, India, Himachal Pradesh, Iran, Japan, Hokkaido, Honshu, Jordan, Korea Republic, Oman, Pakistan and Turkey), Africa (Egypt, Togo and Tunisia), North America (Canada, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Mexico, USA, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming), Central America and Caribbean (Puerto Rico), South America (Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela) and Oceania (Australia, South Australia, Fiji and New Zealand).
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"Watermelon mosaic virus. [Distribution map]." Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases, no. 1) (August 1, 2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/dmpd/20066500906.
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Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Watermelon mosaic virus Viruses: Potyviridae: Potyvirus Hosts: Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), melon (Cucumis melo), cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and other Cucurbitaceae, also some Fabaceae. Information is given on the geographical distribution in EUROPE, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Russian Far East, Spain, Yugoslavia (Fed. Rep.), ASIA, Bangladesh, China, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Xinjiang, India, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Indonesia, Java, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea Republic, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Yemen, AFRICA, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, Sudan, NORTH AMERICA, Canada, Ontario, Mexico, USA, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, SOUTH AMERICA, Argentina, Brazil, Ceara, Maranhao, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Chile, Suriname, Venezuela, OCEANIA, Australia, Queensland, Western, Australia, Cook, Islands Fed., States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, New Zealand, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga.
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"Puccinia purpurea. [Distribution map]." Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases, no. 5) (August 1, 1988). http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/dmpd/20046500212.
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Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Puccinia purpurea Cooke. Hosts: Sorghum spp. Information is given on the geographical distribution in Africa, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Canary Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China, Hong Kong, India, Madras, Bombay, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Mysore, Indonesia, Java, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Kampuchea, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, USSR, Russian Far East, Yemen Arab Republic, Australasia & Oceania, Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory, Fiji, Hawaii, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Europe, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, North America, Bermuda, Mexico, USA, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, New Mexico, Central America & West Indies, Barbados, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Christopher-nevis, St Vincent & Grenadines, Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, South America, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Pernambuco, Sao Pualo, Piaui, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "East Indians – Fiji"
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Gill, Kuldip. "Health strategies of Indo-Fijian women in the context of Fiji." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28790.
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The approach of this enquiry is to describe and analyze the processes and interactions which occur when Indo-Fijian women seek health care from their medical system made up of traditional beliefs and practices, combined with alternative sources of healing such as the Biomedical system, and some Fijian practices. Throughout, I have been concerned with discovering the strategic choices and decisions which Indo-Fijians employ in their transactions with a number of traditional types of healers such as pandits, pujaris, maulvis, orjahs and dais, as well as doctors and nurses in the biomedical sector.
I have used the concept of process as basic to this enquiry and I have paid attention to those processes which display social behaviour in empirical events or situations, and thus on emergent medical systems. Thus, the approach chosen for this study is particularly suitable in the case of Indo-Fijians who arrived in Fiji as indentured labourers, and have had to adapt, to regularize their lives through situational adjustment.
The methods used for data collection were participant-observation in two Indo-Fijian settlements and in a Western Biomedical hospital, in health centres and district nursing stations; as well as the use of archival and library materials.
The enquiry, the first of its kind on health strategies of Indo-Fijian women, concludes with a chapter which discusses the interactions and processes between all medical care domains used by Indo-Fijians. Indo-Fijians do not distinguish between medical systems; their medical system Is Indian in its ideology but lacks the practice of the therapies of professionalized Indian medical systems; it has retained religious healing, reconstructed and synthesized folk healing traditions from many parts of India, as well as adding elements from Fijian healing. While it is also Western in its use of professional therapies, it lacks the ideological foundations of biomedicine.<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Anthropology, Department of<br>Graduate
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Miller, Kevin Christopher. "A community of sentiment Indo-Fijian music and identity discourse in Fiji and its diaspora /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1582037101&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Voigt-Graf, Carmen 1970. "The construction of transnational spaces : travelling between India, Fiji and Australia / Carmen Voigt-Graf." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2002. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27931.
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This thesis examines the comparatively recent concept of transnationalism by undertaking an empirical study in a context that has so far not been systematically studied in this way. The transnationalism concept was pioneered in the early 19905 by scholars in the United States. The argument is that migrants and their kin construct transnational spaces which permeate various spheres of their daily life. Studies that fail to take these transnational spaces into
consideration, risk overlooking important aspects of the migrant adaptation process and the lives of migrants and their kin. This study underlines the importance of applying a transnational perspective to migration and migrant adaptation. While being credited with adding valuable new perspectives and insights, transnationalism scholars have overlooked
continuities with earlier migration concepts.
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Neill, Dawn B. "The effect of urbanization on parental investment decisions among Indo-Fijians /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6449.
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Daley, Kevin. "Communalism and the challenge of Fiji Indian unity : 1920-1947." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/9893.
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Rai, Satish C. "In exile at home : a Fiji-Indian story." Thesis, 2010. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/496671.
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Accompanied by 2 DVDs featuring the documentary drama, In exile at home : a Fiji Indian story. The second DVD contains interviews of key academics featured in the film. Both DVDs may be viewed at UWS Library.
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Batsha, Nishant. "The Currents of Restless Toil: Colonial Rule and Indian Indentured Labor in Trinidad and Fiji." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8D79HPR.
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The study of Indian indentured servitude in the British Empire has largely been confined to the histories of slavery or free labor. Few scholars have connected indenture to larger processes in the British Empire. This dissertation examines the global nature of Indian indenture to find how trends in colonial power were inflected in the relationship between the state and the indentured worker. This dissertation uses the colonial experience in South Asia as a basis for its global history. It contends that the history of the colonial rule of law in the subcontinent was of deep importance to the mechanisms of indenture.
By looking at archival records from the United Kingdom, Trinidad, Fiji, and elsewhere, this dissertation finds that officials in the indenture colonies were attempting to transform indebted Indian peasants into indentured workers. This process was inflected by the experience of colonial rule elsewhere. At first, this meant the implementation of ideas tied to imperial liberalism.
Following the challenges to British colonialism in the mid-nineteenth century, the indenture colonies mirrored a wider movement towards conservative governance. The ways in which the colonial state attempted to control and manipulate workers underwent a dramatic shift. In the indenture colony, colonial power exerted both authoritarian and paternalist tendencies. This dissertation uses the governorships of Arthur Hamilton-Gordon in Trinidad and Fiji to explore this shift.
This dissertation makes its argument by focusing on the indenture colonies of Trinidad and Fiji. In doing so, it moves beyond the model of studying indenture that has looked at the British Empire as a whole, or otherwise in specific colonies or sub-regions. Using Trinidad and Fiji allows for a deep understanding of continuity and change. For example, Trinidad can be used to examine indenture’s beginnings, as the colony began to import Indian indentured labor in 1842, while Fiji can be used to understand late indenture. Furthermore, colonial officials, ideas of authority, capital, labor, and goods were always circulating throughout this global empire. The study of Trinidad and Fiji allows for a critical understanding of such exchanges and this dissertation uses both to explore bureaucratic offices, law, financial systems, governance, protest, medicine and health, and global agitation in Indian indenture.
“The Currents of Restless Toil” is an in-depth study into the nature of colonial governance in the indenture colonies of Trinidad and Fiji. It explores the nuances of colonial power, providing a window into the theory and practice that shaped the restless toil of Indians across the world.
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Prasad, Mohit Manoj, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "Indo-Fijian diasporic bodies : narratives in text, image, popular culture, and the lived everyday in Fiji and Liverpool, Sydney, Australia." 2005. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/15318.
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This thesis examines modalities of identity and representation for the Indo-Fijian diaspora and its second shift diasporic remove in Liverpool, Sydney, Australia. Indo-Fijian Literature in English, Fiji-Hindi, Memoir form of Indo-Fijian diasporic writings along with representations of Indo- Fijians in other texts are examined in the first instance to enable siting of various identities and representations. This is used as a springboard to engage with instances of production; expression and consumption of Popular Culture in Indo-Fijian diasporas are examined towards a critical inquiry into the problematic of Indo-Fijian diasporic identities and representations. The problem at hand is the issue of identity and representation between the binaries of homogeneous constructs of a people and their lives and that of heterogeneous modalities that takes in difference and the place of the individual and their everyday lived space in the Indo-Fijian diaspora. Modes of identity and representation in its various modes, literary, non-literary narratives and in the production, expression and consumption of popular culture is examined in this thesis towards a construct of a diaspora, of a people, beyond convenient reductive homogeneous constructs.<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Chand, Asha. "The chutney generation : Fiji Indian migration, match-making and media in Sydney." Thesis, 2011. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/540951.
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The twice displaced Fiji Indian community in Sydney, what I will call here the ‘chutney generation’, is the largest in the world outside of Fiji. The community inhabits a space where it has adapted to creating a new blend of cultural and social traditions; the clearest demonstration of this being the mobilisation of these concepts around marriage. This work, combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies, explores the traditional and modern intersections of media, migration and their influence on marriage in the maintenance of the Fiji Indian identity in Sydney. Through considering the work of cultural theorists Arjun Appadurai (1996, 2004, 2007), Benedict Anderson (1983, 2006), Neil Postman (2000), James Conroy (2004) and Victor Turner (1969), among other scholars, this research presents the range of media impacts upon the views of arranged marriage, a common practice of the community in Sydney. In this process it promotes a significant understanding of the community in its acceptance of this age-old tradition against a backdrop of migration, modernisation and multiculturalism. This thesis also considers the influence of Bollywood on the community’s ideal and celebration of marriage, which in today’s Australia reflects much complexity as traditional societies meet modern and contemporary ones, all juxtaposed against globalisation and the modern media. The flows from such intersections create a multitude of ruptures in society, fragmenting and dismantling some, while sustaining others in creative and new ways. Vivah, the Hindi word for marriage, means what supports or carries. The word has created a metaphorical journey for the community into the modern world which challenges its identity, values and morals, which are deeply entwined with marriage and Hindu wedding rituals. This cross-disciplinary research captures this tide of change through the cultural clustering of the community, while analysing how arranged marriage, which has parental approval as an important component, (known to the east as a way of life and to the west as narrow and backward), works through western and diasporic frames for the Fiji Indians. It documents how the community frames its moral universe around marriage as a rite of passage, and how group cohesion within its networks propels gossip, especially to ostracise those who are not married. While the acts and ideals of marriage feed the community’s bonds of kinship, they also create a level of fear and anxiety among those who are single, their parents and families.
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Pangerl, Markus Friedrich. "Moving lives : routes and routines of contemporary Indo-Fijian migration." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151111.
Full textBooks on the topic "East Indians – Fiji"
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Nandan, Satendra P. Fiji: Paradise in pieces. Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Flinder's University of South Australia in association with Pacific Indian Publications, 2000.
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Mannu's karma: A life in Fiji and journey through many countries. Devendran Kumaran, 2010.
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Norton, Robert Edward. Race and politics in Fiji. 2nd ed. University of Queensland Press, 1990.
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Choenni, Chan E. S. "East Indians and Political Exclusion: The Case of Fiji, Guyana, and Suriname." In Against Better Judgement: Rethinking Multicultural Society. BRILL, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004513877_022.
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Beinart, William, and Lotte Hughes. "Rubber and the Environment in Malaysia." In Environment and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199260317.003.0019.
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The rise of the motor car created two very different commodity frontiers in the British Empire, one producing oil and the other rubber. The demand for rubber followed an often-repeated pattern in that it was shaped by scientific invention, technological change, and new patterns of consumption in the industrialized world. It was related directly to the development of new fossil fuels. Coal transformed shipping and overland transport by rail. Oil (Chapter 15) opened new realms for mobility. The invention in 1867 of the internal combustion engine by a German, Nikolaus Otto, and in 1885 of automobiles powered by gasoline-driven engines revolutionized transport, culture, and the South-East Asian environment. During the late nineteenth century, wild natural rubber booms swept through the tropical world, from Brazil to the Congo, leaving in their wake hardship and scandal. In Malaysia, there was a very different outcome—the development of plantations on a new capitalist agrarian frontier. Rubber became one of the single most important commodities produced in the Empire, and was enormously valuable to Britain not only for its own motor industry but also to sell to the United States. Whereas demand for some earlier imperial commodities was largely British, there was also significant consumption of rubber and oil in other parts of the Empire, especially the settler dominions. In the early decades of the twentieth century, rubber plantations, in parallel with expanding sugar production in Queensland, Natal, Trinidad, and Fiji, extended and intensified Britain’s engagement with the tropical zones of the world. Indentured workers replaced slaves as the major plantation workforce. South India was the major labour source for Malaysia, where the ports and tin-mining centres already had substantial Chinese communities. British colonialism in Malaysia left as its legacy a multi-ethnic society. By the 1930s about 55 per cent were indigenous Malays and Orang Asli, 35 per cent of Chinese origin, and close to 10 per cent Indian. Although capital was increasingly mobile by the late nineteenth century, extraction and production of the three major commodities of the twentieth century Empire proved to be highly location specific. Gold and oil were trapped in particular geological formations.