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Gujaratis in Fiji Islands

Author : Kantilal Jinna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646490526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Gujaratis in Fiji Islands written by Kantilal Jinna and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on the early history and arrival of Gujaratis. The book is divided into three parts. The first deals with the early history and arrival of Gujaratis; the socio-cultural aspects of Gujaratis; and the photographic history of Gujaratis grouped into family, business, social, community and sporting categories. There is a special section on two leading Gujarati women of Fiji. Other chapters deal with Gujarati contribution in law, politics, education, business and sports. One chapter is a case study of the rise of a Gujarati family. It is the story of the Parshotam family, he said. The second part deals with personal histories and biographies. The family history of the Narseys is dealt with extensively. Some photographs are almost 100 years old, he said. From hawkers to million dollar duty-free shops, from small grocery stores to giant supermarkets, from a small retail store to a conglomerate of industries, from a tailor's shop to a giant garment manufacturing concern, young men and women with basic education to doctors, lawyers, and accountants, the journey of Gujaratis in the Fiji Islands spans a 100 years of growth. Jinna said this book portrays elements of these various journeys, showing determination, persistence and resilience, captured in various chapters, photographs and personal biographies. He said all the articles in the book but one have been written by Gujarati authors who were born, lived or have a strong connection with Fiji. The only chapter written by a non-Gujarati is a research article on the Gujarati Language in Fiji by France Mugler. It has been adopted from the original which France Mugler wrote with Jayshree Mamtora of the University of the South Pacific. The editors Kanti Jinna and Francis Mangubhai have completed this final publication in a trilogy that recorded the first hundred years of Gujaratis in Fiji initiated by the Lautoka Gujarat Samaj, continued by the Suva and Fiji Gujarat Samaj and concluded by Gujarati contributors outside of Fiji." -- Publisher.

The Gujaratis of Fiji, 1900-1945 : a Study of an Indian Immigrant Trader Community

Author : Kamal Kant Prasad
Publisher : 1978.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book The Gujaratis of Fiji, 1900-1945 : a Study of an Indian Immigrant Trader Community written by Kamal Kant Prasad and published by 1978.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Recentring Asia

Author : Jacob Edmond
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004212612
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Recentring Asia written by Jacob Edmond and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays argue that recentring Asia necessitates a revision not only of notions of Asia but also of the centre itself. On the one hand, recentring Asia asserts the centrality of overlooked Asian histories, encounters and identities to world history, culture and geopolitics. On the other hand, recentring provides a way to address and rethink the concept of the centre, a term critical to Asian Studies, area studies and, more broadly, to the study of globalization, postcolonialism, diaspora, modernism and modernity. Drawing on new approaches in these fields, Recentring Asia asks the reader to rethink the centre not as a single site towards which all is oriented, but as a zone of encounter, exchange and contestation.

Colonizing Madness

Author : Jacqueline Leckie
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824878000
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Colonizing Madness written by Jacqueline Leckie and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific Islands’ most enduring psychiatric institution—St Giles Psychiatric Hospital—established as Fiji’s Public Lunatic Asylum in 1884. Her nuanced study reveals a microcosm of Fiji’s indigenous, migrant, and colonial communities and examines how individuals and communities lived with the label of madness in an ethnically complex island society. Tracking longitudinal change from the 1880s to the present in the construction and treatment of mental disorder in Fiji, the book emphasizes the colonization of madness across and within the divides of culture, ethnicity, religion, gender, economics, and power. Colonization of madness in Fiji was forged by the entanglement of colonial institutions and cultures that reflected tensions and prejudices within homes, villages, workplaces, and churches. Mental despair was equally an outcome of the destruction and displacement wrought by migration and colonialism. Madness was further cast within the wider world of colonial psychiatry, Western biomedicine, and asylum building. One of the chapters explores medical discourse and diagnoses within colonial worlds and practices. The “community within” the asylum is a feature in Leckie’s study, with attention to patient agency to show how those labeled insane resisted diagnoses of their minds, confinement, and constraints—ranging from straitjackets to electric shock treatments to drug therapies. She argues that madness in colonial Fiji reflects dynamics between the asylum and the community, and that “reading” asylum archives sheds new light on race/ethnicity, gender, and power in colonial Fiji. Exploring the meaning of madness in Fiji, the author does not shy away from asking controversial questions about how Pacific cultures define normality and abnormality and also how communities respond. Carefully researched and clearly written, Colonizing Madness offers an engaging narrative, a superb example of an intersectional history with a broad appeal to understanding global developments in mental health. Her theses address the contradictions of current efforts to discard the asylum model and to make mental health a reality for all in postcolonial societies.

Beyond Indenture

Author : Crispin Bates
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009339796
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Indenture written by Crispin Bates and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the lives of indentured Indians who fought against the odds to build new lives overseas following the expiration of their contracts.

The Subaltern Indian Woman

Author : Prem Misir
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811051666
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Subaltern Indian Woman written by Prem Misir and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women’s abolition movements in the homeland. Also examining their post-indenture life, it employs a paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in India at the margins of an enduringly patriarchal society, a persisting backdrop to the huge 19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural indentured workforce drawn largely from India. This book depicts the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured Indian women’s cries, degradation and dehumanization and how the politics of change and control impacted their social organization and its legacy. The book owes its origins to the 2017 centennial commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the indenture system of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized Indians from 1834 through 1917.

Peasants in the Pacific

Author : Adrian Mayer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520332555
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Peasants in the Pacific written by Adrian Mayer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Literature of Girmitiya

Author : Neha Singh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811946213
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Girmitiya written by Neha Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers various forms of the production of girmitiya culture and literature. One of the main objectives is to conceptualize the idea of girmitya, girmitology, and girmitiya literature, culture, history, and identity in both colonial and postcolonial contexts. This book aims to document the history, experiences, culture, assimilation, and identity of girmitiya community. It also critically analyses the articulation, projection, and production of their experiences of migration and being immigrant, their narratives, tradition, culture, religion, and memory. It also explores how this labour community formulated into a diaspora community and reconnected/created the home (land) and continues to do so in the wake of globalization and Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This book is an attempt to bring the intriguing neglected diverse historical heritage of colonial labour migration and their narratives into the mainstream scholarly debates and discussions in the humanities and the social sciences through the trans- and interdisciplinary perspectives. This book assesses the routes of migration of old diaspora, and it explains the nuances of cultural change among the generations. Although, they have migrated centuries back, absorbed and assimilated, and got citizenships of respective countries of destinations but still their longing for roots, culture, identities, “home”, and the constant struggle is to retain connections with their homeland depicted in their cultural practices, arts, music, songs, folklore and literary manifestations.

Broken Waves

Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824814182
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Broken Waves written by Brij V. Lal and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] magisterial history of twentieth-century Fiji.... The historical research is thorough and scrupulous, and the presentation is lucid. Lal brings together a wealth of information, much of it previously unavailable and the earlier available materials often reframed in thought-provoking ways.... Perhaps its greatest strength is that is presents the history of modern Fiji as very complicated and multifaceted.” —The Contemporary Pacific Pacific Islands Monograph Series No.11 Published in association with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i

Patels

Author : Govind B. Bhakta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Patels written by Govind B. Bhakta and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to provide a comprehensive report on the most significant social, historical, cultural, and demographic aspects of the Indo-American Patidar of the Surat, Bulsar, and Navsari districts of Gujarat State, India. Documents extensively the immigration and settlement of Indo-American Patels to the United States, focusing on the 1960s to the present.

Gujarati Transnationals

Author : Surekha Acharya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Gujarati Transnationals written by Surekha Acharya and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gujarati Kitchen

Author : Hajratwala, Bhanu
Publisher : Westland
ISBN 13 : 9789380658490
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Gujarati Kitchen written by Hajratwala, Bhanu and published by Westland. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gujrati Kitchen consists of over 100 authentic recipes. Some of these recipes have never been written down before and are generations old, yet they are new-newly adapted for ingredients and tools available now.

Asia in the Pacific Islands

Author : R. G. Crocombe
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820203884
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Asia in the Pacific Islands written by R. G. Crocombe and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2007 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A spectacular transition is under way in the Pacific Islands, as a result of which all our lives will be radically different. In the last fifty years or so, Asia has begun to play a bigger and bigger role in all aspects of Islands life - migration, trade and investment, aid and development, information and media, religion, culture and sport. It is replacing the West. The process is irreversible. With his trademark breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding of the region, based on over half a century of experience, study and deliberation, Ron Crocombe documents the early connections between Asia and the Pacific, details recent and continuing changes, and poses challenging theories about the future."--Publisher.

A Vision for Change

Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921666595
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book A Vision for Change written by Brij V. Lal and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr Lal's book is more than an eloquent account of the political struggle of one of Fiji's outstanding leaders. It is a timely reminder that the process of constitutional change hangs in the balance, as it did at the time of Mr Patel's death. I hope his example will inspire future generations in Fiji to realise the vision articulated by a brilliant and courageous advocate of democracy, and a loyal son of Fiji." - Late Adi Kuini Bavadra

Fiji

Author : Michael C. Howard
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774844663
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Fiji written by Michael C. Howard and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987 -- first in May and again in September -- Fiji, which had often been regarded as a model for racial co-existence, surprised the rest of the world by staging not one but two coups. Most interpreters of the Fijian political scene saw the events as a result of tension between native Fijians and members of other ethnic groups. Michael Howard argues in this book that this interpretation is simplistic. Instead, he points out, the May coup was a strike against democratic government by elements associated with Fiji's traditional oligarchy seeking to hide behind a mask of populist communalism. Howard traces the evolution of Fijian politics from the precolonial chiefdoms, through the colonial era and into the postcolonial period, emphasizing the developments during the latter half of the 1980s. As a close and involved observer, he draws a convincing picture of the leading actors in contemporary Fijian politics and the motives guiding their actions. He describes how the ruling elite -- the Fijian chiefly families and their allies -- has maintained its power by manipulating communal or racially based sentiments and how the opposition has attempted to change the situation by creating political alignments based on social class. In the central part of the book Howard chronicles the rise of the Fiji Labour Party and its 1987 election victory over the ruling Alliance Party. He then discusses the short-lived regime of the Bavadra government and the events leading up to the May 1987 coup. Finally, he looks at events following the coup, as the oligarchy has sought to reimpose control in the face of popular opposition and internal division, discussing their implications for the social condition of Fiji, its international politics, and its internal ethnic relations. The book concludes with the death of Timoci Bavadra in late 1989. A perceptive case study of racial politics in the modern world and a significant new approach to the understanding of the dynamics of a non-western political system, Fiji: Race and Politics in an Island State provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of recent events in this important island state.

State of Suffering

Author : Susanna Trnka
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080146188X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book State of Suffering written by Susanna Trnka and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the Fijian nationalist coup. The overthrow of the elected multiethnic party led to six months of nationalist aggression, much of which was directed toward Indo-Fijians. In State of Suffering, Trnka shows how Indo-Fijians' lives were overturned as waves of turmoil and destruction swept across Fiji. Describing the myriad social processes through which violence is articulated and ascribed meaning-including expressions of incredulity, circulation of rumors, narratives, and exchanges of laughter and jokes-Trnka reveals the ways in which the community engages in these practices as individuals experience, and try to understand, the consequences of the coup. She then considers different kinds of pain caused by political chaos and social turbulence, including pain resulting from bodily harm, shared terror, and the distress precipitated by economic crisis and social dislocation. Throughout this book, Trnka focuses on the collective social process through which violence is embodied, articulated, and silenced by those it targets. Her sensitive ethnography is a valuable addition to the global conversation about the impact of political violence on community life.

Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands

Author : Stewart Firth
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 192094298X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands written by Stewart Firth and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Pacific Islands are feeling the effects of globalisation. Free trade in sugar and garments is threatening two of Fiji's key industries. At the same time other opportunities are emerging. Labour migration is growing in importance, and Pacific governments are calling for more access to Australia's labour market. Fiji has joined Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Kiribati as a remittance economy, with thousands of its citizens working overseas. Meantime, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands grapple with an older kind of globalisation in which overseas companies exploit mineral and forest resources. The Pacific Islands confront unique problems of governance in this era of globalisation. The modern, democratic state often fits awkwardly with traditional ways of doing politics in that part of the world. Just as often, politicians in the Pacific exploit tradition or invent it to serve modern political purposes. The contributors to this volume examine Pacific globalisation and governance from a wide range of perspectives. They come from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Hawai'i, the Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand and Jamaica as well as Australia."--Publisher's description.