first recorded presence of a lascar (Indian seaman) in Fiji was by Peter Dillon, a sandalwood trader in Fiji. The lascar survived a ship wreck and lived...
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12,000 lascars were arriving annually in British ports. In 1873, 3,271 lascars arrived in Britain.: 35 Throughout the early 19th century lascars visited...
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Lali (drum) - Lapitiguana - Fero LASAGAVIBAU - Josefa LASAGAVIBAU - Lascars in Fiji - Laucala - Laucala Airport - LAUFITU of Tonga - Lau Islands - Lauan...
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Indo-Fijians (Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी के हिंदुस्तानी, romanized: Fiji ke Hindustani), also known as Indian Fijians (also colloquially known as "Findians" or...
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3,000 lascars visited the UK annually, and by 1855, 12,000 lascars were arriving annually in British ports. In 1873, 3,271 lascars arrived in Britain...
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Indian New Zealanders (redirect from Indians in New Zealand)
beginning of Indian presence in New Zealand, in which hundreds of unnamed Indian lascars visited New Zealand on European ships in order to procure timber and...
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purpose-built mosque in Mauritius is the Camp des Lascars Mosque in around 1805. It is now officially known as the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Jummah Mosque in Port Louis...
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3,000 lascars visited the UK annually, and by 1855, 12,000 lascars were arriving annually in British ports. In 1873, 3,271 lascars arrived in Britain...
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British Asians (redirect from West Asians in the United Kingdom)
Asian labourers working for them coolies, of which lascars were considered the maritime equivalent. Lascars were sailors or seamen from many different ethnic...
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Poonah (ship) (category Indian indenture ships to Fiji)
passengers in Fiji. The Poonah made trips from India to South Africa carrying indentured labourers who ended up working on the sugar cane plantations, in the...
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Micropholcus). There is variation in size, ranging from just over 1 millimetre (Spermophorides lascars) to 11 mm (Artema atlanta) in body length. Harvestmen (Opiliones)...
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British Bangladeshis (redirect from Bangladeshis in UK)
lascars would be in harmony. According to lascars Moklis Miah and Mothosir Ali, up to forty lascars from the same village would be in the same ship. Shah...
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British Sri Lankans (redirect from Sri Lankans in the United Kingdom)
the mid-late 19th century, many of the migrants from South Asia were the lascars who were sailors from British Colonies that worked on British ships and...
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busy port meant that many lascars were employed there. Most Muslims in Scotland are members of families that immigrated in the later decades of the 20th...
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British Indians (redirect from Indians in Britain)
seamen working on ships. Lascars lodged in British ports in between voyages. Most Indians during this period would visit or reside in Britain temporarily,...
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Indian diaspora (redirect from Indians in Africa)
beginning of Indian presence in New Zealand, in which hundreds of unnamed South Asian lascars visited New Zealand on European ships in order to procure timber...
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Gujarati people (category Ethnic groups in India)
British Empire such as Fiji, Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, East Africa, and South Africa. Diasporas and transnational networks in many of these countries...
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Dundee (ship) (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
the ship broke up drowning two Lascars. The remaining crew made it to shore, although the chief mate gave up swimming in a state of exhaustion and was...
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Māori Indians (category All Wikipedia articles written in New Zealand English)
the Otago region of South Island were three Indian lascars who deserted ship to live among the Māori in 1813. There, they assisted the Ngāi Tahu by passing...
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Indian immigration to Brazil (redirect from Indian immigrants in Brazil)
colonies in the later half of the twentieth century. The earliest Indians to arrive in Brazil were Indian seamen or Lascars, known as "Lascarim" in Portuguese...
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Atamu Tekena, King (?–pre-1892) Fiji Kingdom of Fiji (complete list) – Seru Epenisa Cakobau, King (1871–1874) Colony of Fiji (complete list) – British colony...
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Indian Filipino (redirect from South Asians in the Philippines)
themselves in what is now the Philippines. The term refers to Filipino citizens of either pure or mixed Indian descent currently residing in the country...
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Cardiff Yemeni seamen (Lascars) first arrived in the UK during the 19th century, with many settling in Cardiff among other areas to work in the docks and associated...
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Mauritius at the 2012 Summer Olympics (category 2012 in Mauritian sport)
Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This Olympiad had a contingent of 11 athletes, 4 men and 7 women, to represent the nation in 7 different...
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USS Peacock (1813) (category Ships built in Brooklyn)
fire on Nautilus. Three Europeans and three Indian lascars were killed, while Boyce and five lascars were wounded. American casualties amounted to between...
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Indian Australians (redirect from Indians in Australia)
Indian migration to Australia has progressed "from 18th-century sepoys and lascars (soldiers and sailors) aboard visiting European ships, through 19th-century...
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Ring of Fire (section Fiji)
Vanuatu Bougainville Island Solomon Islands Fiji Tonga Islands Kermadec Islands Taupō Volcanic Zone Volcanoes in the central parts of the Pacific Basin, for...
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19th-century London (redirect from London in the 1840s)
estimated to be around 46,000 in 1882, and a very small Indian population consisting largely of transitory sailors known as lascars. In the 1880s and 1890s tens...
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History of miscegenation (redirect from Miscegenation in Costa Rica)
their husbands. The British East India Company brought many South Asian lascars (maritime auxiliaries employed by British mercantile and shipping companies)...
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Interracial marriage (section Elsewhere in Africa)
I began, 51,616 lascars were working in Britain. The novel "Two Leaves and a Bud" by Ananda depicts labourer women in a tea garden in India being exploited...
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