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MOVIES, DOCUMENTARIES & LITERATURE

The following are the list of films that have been made or are being made on the Indian indenture system, variously known as the girmit (Fiji and South Africa) jahaji and contractee system (in the Carribean). Where possible, we will provide a review/preview of the films listed and contact details of the producer(s). The readers are requested to provide us details of any films on the girmit (indenture system) that they know have been produced but are not listed here.  Listed below are most of the books written on this subject by various authors, academics, political and community leaders: 
DIASPORA
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
bullet Coolies - How British Re-invented Slavery (BBC London)  click here to read review and watch the Documentary

                     
SYDNEY AUSTRALIA
FEATURE FILMS
 

bullet Flight From A Paradise (110 MINS) Director/Producer Satish Rai

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

bullet Milaap-Discover Your Indian Roots (2001-30mins) Director/Producer Satish Rai
bullet Milaap-A Royal Discovery (2004-52mins) Director/Producer Satish Rai
bullet Milaap-The Land of South Indian Girmitiays (2006-28 mins) Director/Producer Satish Rai
bullet Once Were Farmers (2004-52 mins) Director/Producer Satish Rai
bullet In Exile At Home-A Fiji Indian Story (2008-90 mins) Director/Producer Satish Rai (for more information about Satish Rai's films contact him on rai2@iprimus.com.au or visit www.raivision.com.au

MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
FEATURE FILMS                                                

bullet Adhura Sapna (Producer/Director Vimal Reddy)

 
FIJI
FEATURE FILMS


DOCUMENTARY FILMS
 

GUYANA
FEATURE FILMS

bullet Guyana 1838
 

 

bullet Sharma, KamleshGulaami - Slavery In Fiji , KPS Publications,: 2010.
bullet Sharma, KamleshRahuls Road, KPS Publications,: 2008.
bullet Mishra, Vijay, (Ed.), Rama’s Banishment-A Centenary Tribute to the Fiji Indians 1879-1979, Heinemann Educational Books, 1979.
bullet Mishra, Vijay, The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary. London and New York: Routledge, 2007; rpt 2008 (twice).
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Mishra, Vijay, Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire. New York and London: Routledge, 2002; rpt six times.

bullet Gravelle, Kim, Fiji’s Times-A History of Fiji, The Fiji Times Limited, Suva, Fiji: 1988.
bullet Burns, Sir Alan, Fiji, Her Majesty’s Stationery office, London: 1963.
bullet Legge, J. D., Britain in Fiji 1858-1880, MACMILLAN & CO LTD, New York-St Martins Press: 1958.
bullet Gillion, K.L., Fiji’s Indian Migrants: 1963
bullet Gillion, K.L., The Fiji Indians Indian’s Challenge to European Dominance 1920-1946: 1977.
bullet Robertson, Robert T. & Tamanisau, Akosita, Fiji Shattered Coups, Pluto Press, Sydney: 1988.
bullet Howard, Michael C., Fiji: Race and Politics in an Island State, UBC Press, Vancouver: 1991.
bullet Bain, Kenneth, Treason at 10: Fiji at the Cross Roads, Hodder & Stoughton, London: 1989.
bullet Lal, Brij, V.,(Ed.),  Politics in Fiji: Studies in Contemporary History, Allen & Unwin, Sydney: 1986.
bullet Lawson, Stephanie, The Failure of democratic Politics in Fiji, Clarendon Press-Oxford: 1991.
bullet Dean, Eddie and Ritova, Stan, Rabuka: No Other Way-The story of the Fijian coupDoubleday, Sydney: 1988.
bullet Lal, Brij V., Broken Waves-A History of the Fiji Islands in the twentieth Century, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu: 1992.
bullet Lal, Brij V., Fiji before the Storm-elections and the politics of development, Asia Pacific Press, Australian National Press: 2000.
bullet Ali, Ahmed, Plantation to Politics-Studies on Fiji Indians, The University of South Pacific and the Fiji Times and Herald Limited, Suva: 1980.
bullet Ali, Ahmed (2004). Girmit: Indian Indenture Experience in Fiji. Suva, Fiji: Fiji Museum.        
bullet Nandan, Satendra, Lines Across Black Waters, CRNLE/Academy Press: New Delhi, 1997.
bullet Lal, Brij V, Girmitiyas-The Origins of the Fiji Indians, ANU Printing Services, Canberra: 1983.
bullet Norton, Robert, Race and Politics in Fiji, University of Queensland Press: 1990.
bullet Subramani, The Indo-Fijian Experience, University of Queensland Press: 1979.
bullet Nandan, Satendra, Fiji Paradise in Pieces, The Centre for Research in the New Literature in English, Adelaide: 2000.
bullet Subramani, Altering Imagination, Fiji Writers Association, Suva: 1995.
bullet Subramani, South Pacific Literature From Myth to Fabulation, Suva: 1992.
bullet Lal, Brij V, Chalo Jahaji on a journey through indenture in Fiji, ANU, Canberra: 2000.
bullet Lal, Brij V, (ED.), Bitter Sweet, Pandanus Book, ANU: 1999.
bullet Prasad, Suresh, “Girmit” The saga of the Indenture System in Fiji, University of Western Sydney: 2003.
bullet National Farmers Union, Children of the Indus 1879-2004, National Farmers Union: 2004.
bullet Sharma, Kavita A., Pal, Adesh, Chakkrabarti, T., (Editors), Theorising and Critiquing Indian Diaspora, Creative Books, New Delhi: 2004.
bullet Sharma, Kavita A., Pal, Adesh, Chakkrabarti, T., (Editors), Interpreting Indian Diasporic Experiences, Creative Books, New Delhi: 2004.

 

 
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