INDENTURED LABOUR But it did not give the European settlers any labourers. That is why the India Office, in 1875, was trying to get indentured labourers for Fiji. The labourers were bound to work on the plantations for ten years and were, after the period of ten years, guaranteed a return passage to India. The India Office (that is, the British Government) promised that those who decided to stay in Fiji after they had finished their indenture, should have rights ‘in no whit inferior to those of any other race’—that is, it seems that the Indians were promised as much right to have land as anybody else. By 1916, when the indentured labour system was ended, 64,000 Indians had been brought by the ship-load to work in the sugar plantations of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company; 24,000 of these had been taken back to India, and
those of the remainder who had not died, stayed to become the parents of the present Fijian-born Indians.
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Te Ao Hou, Summer 1953, Page 28
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