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In this early essay on Indo-Fijian fiction, Vijay Mishra considers the reverberations of an 'Indian indenture consciousness' in the contemporary literary work of Satendra Nandan, Subramani and Raymond Pillai.
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Girmit and girmitya are terms which were used by indentured labourer in Fiji to refer to their conditions and themselves. They are thought to derive from a corrupted form of the word 'agreement,' suggesting the importance of the contract that governed the lives of indentured labourers. These terms were not in use for many years but have, towards the end of the twentieth century, enjoyed a revival.
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Indo-Fijian Fiction and the Girmit Ideology
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