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From: History Department Events < historyevents_du at yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 4, 2007 11:54 PM
Subject: 10th Jan: Talk by Prof. Brij Lal
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                                              DSA Programme
 Department of History
                                             University of Delhi


                                                invites you to


*       *
                                                 A lecture by


                                            *Prof** . Brij V. Lal*


                                                      on

                         * 10th January *(Wednesday) at 2:30 p.m.

    Venue:* M.A. Final classroom, Social Science Building, Arts Faculty
*



*Abstract of the lecture: *
 Prof. Lal  will provide an overview of the  historical and cultural
experience of the Indian community in Fiji. Broad ranging in scope and
open-ended in approach, Prof. Lal will trace the contours of Fiji's girmit
experience, tease out its special features, examine the ways in which the
Indian social and cultural institutions once thought to be immutable were
modified or discarded in response to the exigencies of life on the
plantations, the ways in which an uprooted community, without leaders or
'cultural capital' of its own, fashioned a new identity in often
inhospitable and hostile conditions. The fate of the Indo-Fijians has not
been a happy one. They have long been the victims of colonial racism and
indigenous nationalism. Since the coups of 1987, over 120,000 have left for
new homelands, twice the number who came as indentured labourers between
1879 and 1916. From immigration to emigration may become the epitaph of
Fiji's Indian community.

 *About the speaker:*
 Prof. Brij V. Lal is Professor, Division of Pacific and Asian History and
The Pacific Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The
Australian National University.


 *Coming Next: *
 *15 th January (Monday): Nita Kumar, * The Family-School Relationship in
Colonial and Postcolonial India, and Historiographical Matters Arising

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