The Fiji Times » Insider vs outsider – Sakul: Work together rather than against
Dr Sakul and Bhawna Kundra 17 May, 2021, 7:20 pm Girmitya at a banana plantation in Fiji. Pictures from INL Archives MAY 14 1879 is a landmark day for the Fiji indentured labourers that has been explained in the scholarly book of Brij V. Lal’ Chalo Jahaji: on a journey through indenture in Fiji. The book stated, Leonidas, the first immigrant ship, cleared port on 4 March, 1879, there were 498 people on board: 273 men, 146 women, 47 boys and 32 girls. 60,945 individuals between 1879 and 1916’ found a new home and became free settlers after indenture emigration ceased. These immigrant ship...
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