Girmityas

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Girmitiyas, (

The word girmit represented an Indian pronunciation of the English word "agreement" - from the indenture "agreement" of the British Government with labourers from the Indian subcontinent.^[1] The agreements specified the workers' length of stay in foreign parts and the conditions attached to their return to the British Raj.^[2] The word Jahāj refers to 'ship' in Indic languages (from the Arabic/Persian Jahāz/جهاز), with Jahaji implying 'people of ship' or 'people coming via ship'.^[3]

In Fiji,

• Indian indenture system
• Indo-Caribbeans
• Indo-Fijians
• Fiji Hindi
• Global Girmit Museum

References

Further reading

• Gillion, Kenneth (1962). Fiji's Indian migrants : a history of the end of indenture in 1920. Melbourne: Oxford U.P.
• ISBN 082482265X
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• ISBN 978-0-8248-2265-1
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• Gaiutra Bahadur (2014).
  ISBN 978-0-226-21138-1
• Carter, Marina; Torabully, Khal (2002). Coolitude : an anthology of the Indian labour diaspora. London: Anthem.
  ISBN 1843310031
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• Praveen Kumar Jha (2019). Coolie Lines. New Delhi: Vani Prakashan.
  ISBN 978-93-88684-04-0