Peasants in the Pacific: A Study of Fiji Indian Rural SocietyThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973. |
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Peasants in the Pacific: A Study of Fiji Indian Rural Society, Volume 10 Adrian C. Mayer Limited preview - 1973 |
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activities agnates Arya Samaj behaviour boycott Brahman bride's brother cane farmers caste cent centre Chinsami Council crop CSR Company cultivation cultural group Dayal debt Delanikoro disputes divisions economic elections endogamy Europeans example existed fact factions farming father festival Fiji Indian community Fiji-born Fijian fire-walking Gang groom Gujarati Hardayal Singh harvest held Hindi homesteads house group immigrants important increase indenture India-born joint households Kanni kin group kinship labour Lakhan land later leaders lease living Maha Sangh mainly major marriage married ment Muslim Namboulima neighbours Northern Hindus occupation officers paddy panchayat parents party pattern political population priest quarrels Rajput Ramayana Ramlila Ramnath reason recruited relations relatives religious rites rivalry rural sardar School Committee settle Sikh social sons Southern status storekeeper sugar Sundar Suva temple three settlements tion took union Vanua Levu village Viti Levu Vunioki wedding women younger Youth Association