Robertson, Robbie (2012) Book review of "Disturbing History: resistance in early colonial Fiji, 1874-1914" by Robert Nicole, University of Hawaii Press, Hawaii. Journal of Peasant Studies, 39 (1). pp. 225-227.

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[Extract] Fiji history has always been highly politicised and segmented. Ethnic Fijians have their own history, centred on the maintenance of nineteenth century coastal and island empires. Contradictory stories have been largely excised from their official record. Alongside that history, however, occupying a different universe according to some writers, has resided a semi official history of IndoFijians, descendents of the indentured labourers that Britain imported to sustain its colonial sugar economy. Together these colonially derived and postcolonially maintained histories tell a story of colonial disorder generated by Indian greed and disloyalty contrasting sharply with the stability that Fijian loyalty produced.

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