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* {{cite book|last=Lal|first=Brij V.| authorlink =Brij Lal (historian)|title=Girmitiyas : the origins of the Fiji Indians|year=2004|publisher=Fiji Institute of Applied Studies|location=Lautoka, Fiji|isbn=978-0-8248-2265-1|url=http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-1985-9780824822651.aspx}} |
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* Gaiutra Bahadur, ''[[Coolie Woman]]: The Odyssey of Indenture''. The University of Chicago (2014) {{ISBN|978-0-226-21138-1}} |
* Gaiutra Bahadur, ''[[Coolie Woman]]: The Odyssey of Indenture''. The University of Chicago (2014) {{ISBN|978-0-226-21138-1}} |
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* Khal Torabully, Marina Carter, Coolitude. Anthem University Press, 2002. http://www.anthempress.com/coolitude-pb |
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Girmityas or Jahajis are descendants of indentured Indian labourers brought to Fiji, Mauritius, South Africa, East Africa, the Malay Peninsula, Caribbean and South America (Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname) to work on sugarcane plantations for the prosperity of the European settlers and save the Fijians from having to work on these plantations and thus to preserve their culture. "Agreement" is the term that has been coined into "Girmit", referring to the "Agreement" of the British Government with the Indian labourers as to the length of stay in Fiji and the Caribbean, and when they would be allowed to go back to India.
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Further reading
- Gillion, Kenneth (1962). Fiji's Indian migrants : a history of the end of indenture in 1920. Melbourne: Oxford U.P.
- Brij V. Lal and Kate Fortune, ed. (2000). "Girmitiya". The Pacific Islands : an encyclopedia ([Repr.]. ed.). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 110–111. ISBN 082482265X.
- Lal, Brij V. (2004). Girmitiyas : the origins of the Fiji Indians. Lautoka, Fiji: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies. ISBN 978-0-8248-2265-1.
- Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. The University of Chicago (2014) ISBN 978-0-226-21138-1
- Khal Torabully, Marina Carter, Coolitude. Anthem University Press, 2002. http://www.anthempress.com/coolitude-pb