To make sense of the present, we need to understand more about the past. What you should also know about Fiji's History. -- ACW
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Enslaved in Paradise – A History of Mammoth Betrayals of Fijians by the British, Chiefs and Leaders of Fiji 1876-2006.
Another book by Rajendra Prasad, author of Tears in Paradise.
A riveting account of Fiji’s history,
challenging some of the common perceptions and revealing how the
British stranded the Girmitiyas to save Fiji’s sugar industry and
colluded with the chiefs who prevented social, political and economic
development of indigenous Fijians but blamed Indo-Fijians for it. The book persuasively discloses:
- British statecraft in shaping a Fiji that secured its interests, promoted European enterprise, using cheap Indian labour, facilitated CSR Company exploitation of Indian farmers and confined Taukeis in koros, using the chiefs to fulfil its insidious agenda.
