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Plates (b). The weekly market in town between pp. 178 and 179 XV(a). India-born (b). Fiji-born XVI(a). India-born (b). Fiji-born between pp. 194 and 195 XVII(a). Vunioki 1971 : canefields on high ground (b). Vunioki 1971 : new style cane harvest (see Plate VI) XVIIl(a). Vunioki 1971 : old and new house styles (b). Vunioki 1971: fuel pump and customer XIX(a). Vunioki 1971 : one of the settlement's cars (b). Delanikoro's market town 1971 : traffic and shops XX(a). Twenty years on (see Plate XVI b) (b). Delanikoro 1971 : birthday party (note cake) x ## London, 1972 xi NDIAN settlement overseas has a history of many centuries. One of its most notable features is the recruiting in the nineteenth century of Indian labourers under indenture. These people were sent to such British colonies as Trinidad, Natal, Mauritius, Guiana and Fiji. There they started permanent communities, most of whose members were farmers, in contrast to the mainly mercantile character of traditional settlement which was later followed in such places as East Africa. The first aim of this book is to provide an account of the rural section of the Fiji Indian community, for people either living in Fiji or interested in

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Author

Adrian C. Mayer

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520332560

Category

nonfiction