FIJIAN INDIANS IN MAURITUS & FIJI

THE INDIAN INDENTURED SERVANTS ARE IN TWO BRITISH COUNTRIES. AFTER 1834 THEY EMPLOYED THEM AFTER THE END OF SLAVERY. FIJI BROUGHT THE INDIANS TO WORK SUGAR CANE PLANTATIONS IN 1879.

INDENTURED SERVANTS BEGAN IN MAURITIUS IN 1834 AND ENDED IN FIJI IN 1916. ONE MILLION INDIANS MIGRATED TO 8 COUNTRIES. MAURITUS WAS THE FIRST BRITISH ISLAND TO IMPORT FREE LABOR FROM ANOTHER PART OF BRITAIN. THE DUTCH HAS BEEN HERE FROM 1658 TO 1710. THE ENGLISH CAPTURED THE ISLAND IN 1810 AND RETURNED THE NAME MAURITUS TO THE ISLAND. TRADERS, JEWELERS AND SHOEMAKERS LIVED HERE. BY 1833 SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED. THE FIRST SLAVES WERE PAID BY EMPLOYERS. BETWEEN 1834 AND 1839 THERE WERE 25,000INDIANS HERE AND ONLY 5,000 WERE FEMALES.

THEY HAVE MAINTAINED THEIR DISTINCT CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND DISTRICT. THEY HAVE FOUGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS. MANY OF THE FOLKS WERE GIVEN THE OPTION TO WORK AS AN INDENTURED LABORERERS OR AS KULULA OR FREE LABORERS. THEY WERE GIVEN THE CHOICE OF RETURNING TO INDIA, BUT THEY HAD LOW PAY THERE TOO. MANY LEASED SMLL PLOTS OF LAND TO DEVELOP AGRICULTURAL FIELDS OR CATTLE FARMS. OTHERS WENT TO INTO BUSINESS OF THEIR OWN.

THE SHORTAGE OF FEMALES MEANT THEY SHOULD MARRY OUTSIDE OUTSIDE OF THEIR CASTE SYSTEM. THEY ALSO DEVELOPED ANOTHER POSITIVE DIALECT OF A LANGUAGE. MUSIC WAS IMPORTANT TO THEM WITH FIJI-HINDI CULTURE AND JAZZ. THEY INCLUDED ENGLISH AS WELL.

INDIANS ARRIVED HERE AS FREE PEOPLE FROM EARLY 1900'S. THE GOVERNMENT BROUGHT CLERKS, POLITICIANS, CLERKS, POLITICIANS, POLICEMEN, ARTISANS, GARDENERS,DOCTORS, AND TEACHERS FROM EARLY 1900'S.

A NUMBER OF FIJIANS INDIANS VOLUNTEERED IN WWI. IN THE LATE 1960'S THEY HAD A LEADER OF THE NATIONAL FEDERAL PARTY. FIJIAN INDIANS WERE FROM INDIA VS BORN IN FIJI. THE INDIANS CONTINUED TO CAMPAIGNE FOR BETTER WORK AND LIVING. A STRIKE IN 1921 LED TO THEIR DEMAND OF HIGHER RATES.

TWO MAJOR HINDU MOVEMENTS ATTRACTED WIDESPREAD SUPPORT IN THE 1920'S. THERE WAS A BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE 1920'S. THEIR WAS A BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE BETWEEN THE HINDU RELIGION AND TRADITIONAL FIJIAN RELIGION.

FIJIAN INDIANS PRACTICE SANALTAN DHARAM AND DON'THAVE CHILD CHILD MARRIAGES. THEY HAVE INTERFAITH MARRIAGE. MANY OF THIS TRIBE GREW CAMELS AND WORKED IN THESE PLANTS. AT WORLD WAR II A STRIKE WAS ORGANIZED BY A MILITANT SECTOR OF THEIR TRIBE. THIS OVERTHROW IS LARGELY BY THE FIJIAN INDIAN GOVERNMENT. SOME THOUGHT IT WAS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.

THEY BUILT A METHODIST CHURCH THAT SUPPORTED FORGIVENESS. TODAY THE FIJIANSFACE MAJOR OBSTACLES TO HEALTH. THEY HAVE TYPE II DIABETES AND HIGH LEVELS OF INSULIN RESISTANCE. CARDIOVASCULAR DISEAES ARE HIGH AMONG THIS GROUP. THEY HAVE A HIGH FAT DIET AND A VERY SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE.

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