Nausori Sugar Plantation
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Cartographic Name
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Nausori Sugar Plantation
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Identifier
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SITE-NSP
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category
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Plantation
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temporalCoverage
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1882-1959
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sourceOrganization
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Native Land Ordinances (1875, 1880, 1905), Indian Immigration Ordinance 1879, Master and Servants Ordinances (Fiji)
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text
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“There are twenty-two long, lumber, windowless houses, with iron roofs, divided into apartments of 10×12 feet. One of these rooms is assigned to a family, or in case of single men, three of these to a room” The Fijian Islands: A Description of the History, Inhabitants, Productions, and Present Condition of Fiji. London: Religious Tract Society, 1894, p. 101.
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"We are known in different parts of the South Pacific Ocean, for being inflicted with the disease of song. Even the moon drops down low to experience the music from our tongues and throats" Narrative Poetry. Anjali, Manisha. Naag Mountain. Giramondo Publishing, 2024, p.95.
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"The harsh treatment of indentured labourers in a whole host of ways led them to describe life on plantations as narak – hell" Historiography. Moynagh, Michael. Brown or White? A History of the Fiji Sugar Industry, 1873–1973. Australian National University Press, 1981, p.48.
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"Many such girmityas died alone: uncared for, unmourned, unremembered, thousands of miles from where they were born" Prose and Poetry. Nandan, Satendra. Nadi: Memories of a River: Faces in a Village. Landmark Publications, 2014, p.48.
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"In 1905 CSR’s Labasa manager had hoped to settle Indians on condition that they work as required for 1s 3d a day but the free market wage of time-expired labourers was often nearer to 1s 6d, though it did vary" Historiography. Moynagh, Michael. Brown or White? A History of the Fiji Sugar Industry, 1873–1974. Australian National University Press, 1981, p.107.
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Source
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Global Girmit Museum, Lautoka (Fiji)
ANU/Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
National Archives of Fiji (Suva)
Fiji Museum (Suva)
Michael Moynagh, Brown or White? A History of the Fiji Sugar Industry, 1873–1973 (1981)
Brij V. Lal, Girmitiyas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians (1983)
K.L. Gillion, Fiji’s Indian Migrants: A History to the End of Indenture in 1920 (1962)
Adrian Graves, Cane and Labour: The Political Economy of the Fiji Sugar Industry, 1875–1975 (1993).