Levelling wind : remembering Fiji /

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Author / Creator:	Lal, Brij V.
Imprint:	Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource (xxx, 563 pages) : 1 colour illustration
Language:	English
Series:	Pacific Series Pacific series.
Subject:	Lal, Brij V. Lal, Brij V. Manners and customs. Politics and government. Fiji -- Social life and customs. Fiji -- Politics and government. Fiji.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11981443

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Other authors / contributors:	Australian National University Press.
ISBN:	1760462675 9781760462673 9781760462666 1760462667
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-561).
Summary:	'What I have sought to do in my work is to give voiceless people a voice, place and purpose, the sense of dignity and inner strength that comes from never giving up no matter how difficult the circumstances. History belongs as much to the vanquished as to the victors.' - Brij V. Lal. 'Professor Brij Lal is the finest historian of the Indian indentured experience and the Indian diaspora. His Girmitiyas is a classic.' - Emeritus Professor Clem Seecharan, London Metropolitan University. 'Brij Lal is a highly respected, versatile and imaginative scholar who has made a lasting contribution to the historiography of the Pacific.' - Dr Rod Alley, Victoria University of Wellington. 'Professor Brij Lal's life is a remarkable journey of a scholar and an intellectual whose writings are truly transformative; a man of moral clarity and courage who also has deep pain at being cut off from his homeland.' - Professor Michael Wesley, Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. 'Brij Lal is a singular scholar, whose work has spanned disciplines - from history, political commentary, encyclopedia, biography and "faction". Brij is without doubt the most eminent scholar in the humanities and social sciences Fiji has ever produced. He also remains one of the most significant public intellectuals of his country, despite having been banned from entering it in 2009.' - Emeritus Professor Clive Moore, University of Queensland. 'Brij Lal is an accomplished and versatile historian and true son of Fiji. Above all, there is affirmation here of the enduring worth of good literature and the value of good education that Lal received and wants others to experience. The world needs more Lals who speak out against ruling opinions and dare to stray into the pastures of independent thought.' - Professor Doug Munro, historian and biographer, Wellington, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland.
Other form:	Print version: Lal, Brij V. Levelling Wind : Remembering Fiji. Canberra : ANU Press, ©2019 9781760462666

Table of Contents:

'For the loser now will be later to win' / Doug Munro, University of Queensland
Ni Sa Bula / Namaskar / G'Day
Past Present: Indenture and its Legacy. 1. Memories of indenture
2. 'Such a long journey': The story of indenture
3. The Tamarind Tree
4. 'A most callous indifference'
5. Transitions and transformations
6. Illusion of hope: Aisha and Bhaskar / Padma Narsey Lal
7. 'The burden of remembrance'
8. Frequent flyers
9. Mr Arjun goes to Australia
10. 'The children of the wind'
Future Tense: Witnessing History. 11. While the gun is still smoking
12. The road to independence
13. Where has all the music gone?
14. Towards a united future
15. George Speight's putsch improbable
16. Laisenia Qarase's missed chance
17. A coup by any other name
18. Entrenching illegality
19. The strange career of a 'clean-up' coup
20. Between a rock and a hard place
Retrospection. 21. Exile and a land of memory: Brij V. Lal, Indo-Fijian scholar activist / C.K. Chen
22. 'Of exits and entrances' : In dialogue with Doug Munro
23. ANU made me, but which ANU is mine?

Levelling wind : remembering Fiji /

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