Chalo Jahaji : on a journey through indenture in Fiji / Brij V. Lal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lal, Brij V., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indentured servants--Fiji--Biography.

Indentured servants.

Fiji--History.

Fiji.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2012

Canberra, Australia : Australian National University E Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

'Brij Lal's Chalo Jahaji is an intensely personal journey through his life and that of the 60,000 Indians who became girmitiyas in Fiji. The intricate history is measured, but Lal reveals himself and his family in a way historians seldom do. Chalo Jahaji is Pacific history at its best: rigorous and critical, informative and involved.' -- Clive Moore.

Contents:

Preliminary; Table of Contents; Girmit Connections - Brinsley Samaroo; Preface - Beginnings and Endings; 1. Of Journeys and Transformations: Brij V. Lal and the Study of Girmit - Doug Munro; 2. Return to Bahraich; 3. The Odyssey of Indenture; 4. A Journey Begins; 5. Origins of the Girmitiyas; 6. A Time to Move; 7. Bound for the Colonies in 1905; 8. The Voyage of the Leonidas; 9. The Wreck of the Syria, 1884; 10. Murmurs of Dissent; 11. Kunti's Cry; 12. Veil of Dishonour; 13. Hinduism Under Indenture; 14. The Story of the Haunted Line

15. 'A Want of Care': Death and Disease on Fiji Plantations, 1800-1900 - Glenn Fowler16. Death On Fiji Plantations, 1900-1909 - Nicole Duncan; 17. Accidental Deaths on Fiji Plantations, 1879-1916 - Anthony Cole; 18. Naraini's Story - Jane Harvey; 19. The Labasa Strike, 1907 - Matthew Ryan; 20. Mr Tulsi's Store; 21. Ben's Funeral; 22. Sunrise on the Ganga; Map of India; Map of Fiji; Appendix; Tables and Figures; Sources; Books authored or edited by Brij V. Lal; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 26, 2016).

ISBN:

9781922144614

1922144614

9781922144607

1922144606

OCLC:

819988589

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459865