Fiji Girmit

Fiji Girmit

Fijians remember Girmityas with reverence

Perception of the future is always fortified by knowledge of the past, for, one fires the ambition and the drive to strive towards success while

Fiji Girmit

Slavery theory goes out of indenture definition

The Girmit narrative is no longer concerned with the grand moral questions of indenture, with questions of right and wrong, and with apportioning blame. Among

Fiji Girmit

Labourers forge a unique bond amidst adversity

This year 14th May will mark 135 years since the schooner ‘Leonidas’ arrived in Suva, Fiji in 1879 with the first “Girmit” labourers from India.

Fiji Girmit

Envoy ousted for supporting Indo-Fijians

The fact that India is the only country that has stood by Fiji and fought for the betterment of Indo-Fijians is well documented, but not

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Efforts to retrace South Indian roots continue

Indenture everywhere involved rupture and reconstitution but its pace and pattern differed from place to place. The fragments of ancestral culture that the migrants brought

Hard labour hardens migrants

“It is suggested that the strata from which most of them originated were increasingly being subjected to unprecedented changes brought about by British penetration of

An expert on Fiji for Auckland

New Zealanders in general and Indo-Fijians in particular, will benefit from the visit of one of the most prolific writers and renowned academics to Auckland

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An obscure past frustrates the present

As I write this article for the Indian Newslink Girmit Celebration issue, it seems natural to break my contribution into three parts. The first is

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Government must fund Girmit celebration

As the nation commemorates the 135th anniversary of the arrival of indentured Indians to Fiji, the National Federation Party (NDP) calls upon all peoples of

Promise of equality holds the nation

One of the most important reasons for people’s acceptance of Fiji’s Interim Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama is his promise to change the political and

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Salutations from us

Indo-Fijians are among the most hardworking and enterprising people in the world. With diffidence, devotion and dedication as their attributes, they are never known to

Indian Newslink

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