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THE INDO - FIJIAN POPULATION GROWTH: AND STABILIZATION
Rajesh Chandra
From 1879 till the arrival of the last ship of indentured labourers in Fiji in 1916 migration was the major factories population increase among Fiji Indians. The age structure of the
labourers reflected a 'working' population with few children and almost no old people, and the proportion of males to females remained unbalanced. Since 1916, the Indian population had undergone almost complete
transformation. Immigration was supersede by natural increase, the ratio of males and females improved, the age structure became more normal, while the initial rural settlement patterns were increasingly
supplemented by urban settlement to the extent that by 1956 Indians comprised half of Fiji' s urban dwellers. Indian population increased rapidly of Fiji in 1881 to 6.2 percent by the next census in 1891.
THE MEETING OF RELIGION IN FIJI
John Garrett
Visitors to India travelling on buses or trains, find that one of the first subjects raised by strangers who fall into conversation is religion. There are many religions in India.
Probably because Hinduism, as the majority faith, is so eager to discover all the many possible ways of seeking God, there is a surprising love of religious conversation.
TRADITIONAL INDIAN FOLK DRAMA IN FIJI
Raymond Pillai
Indian drama has a venerable history streching back to almost Vedic times, and includes playwrights like Ashvaghosha in the 1st centuries later, the Kalidasa in the 4th
century. However, the early Sanskrit theatre was not intended as popular entertainment for the masses; it was a class institution catering to the political and
cultural elits of Indian society. Consequently, when vernacular languages such as Marathi and Tamil, Sanskrit began to retreat before the newly developing vernacular
languages such as Marathi and Tamil, Sanakrit drama give way to other theotrical genres which were more attuned to the lives of humbler folks.
MONOPOLY CAPITAL, WHITE RACISM AND SUPERPROFITS IN FIJI
A Case study of CSR
Wardan Lal Narsey
The people of Fiji face many problems and contradictions: in a nation apparently well endowed with natural resources both land and marine, there is the much -publicised
spectra of large and growing unemployment; an increasing proportion of the young are committing acts which the society is classifying as 'criminal' ; above all, the bulk of the
people of Fiji cost of living on incomes that has for decades condemned them to poverty : with prices comparable to those of Australia and New Zealand, the incomes
of wage-earners in Fiji have been merely a fraction of Australia and New Zealand wages.
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