in which indigenous Fijian military officers sought to curb the rising political power of the Indo-Fijian community, which was roughly equal in number to the indigenous Fijian population at the time.

And many would rather let it sit idle than lease it to the people they see as outsiders--even when some Indo-Fijian families have lived here for more than a century. For many Indo-Fijian farmers ...

Between 1879 and 1916 the British transported over 60,000 Indians to Fiji to work on the islands’ sugar cane plantations. A significant population of Indo-Fijian subsequently grew from these ...

says Lal. “Many Indo-Fijians will vote for Bainimarama, partly out of fear that they’ll be at the mercy of Fijian nationalists should they fail – also because his policies are geared towards ...