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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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    Fiji Hindi (Devanagari: फ़िजी हिंदी; Kaithi: 𑂣𑂺𑂱𑂔𑂲⸱𑂯𑂱𑂁𑂠𑂲; Perso-Arabic: فجی ہندی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Indo-Fijians. It is an...
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    largest ethnic backgrounds that Fijians identified with were Indian/Indo-Fijian and Indigenous Fijian origins. Fijians were also the fifth largest Pacific...
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    the English name of indigenous Fijians from "Fijians" to itaukei, the Fijian language endonym for indigenous Fijians. Deposed Prime Minister Laisenia...
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    the land is held by indigenous Fijians, under the collective ownership of the traditional Fijian clans. Indo-Fijians produce over 90% of the sugar crop...
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    Hinduism in Fiji (Fiji Hindi: फिजी में सनातन धर्) is the second-largest religion, and primarily has a following among Indo-Fijians, the descendants of...
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    The refusal of Indo-Fijians to play an active role in the war efforts became part of the ideological construction employed by Fijian ethno-nationalists...
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    islands. Nearly all of the indigenous Fijians are Christian, with some two-thirds being Methodist. The Indo-Fijians, by contrast, have a similar religious...
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    and Sikhism. The Indo-Fijian population in Canada is not as diverse religiously as the general Indo-Canadian community. Indo-Fijians have established...
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    widely resented by many Indo-Fijians, who complained that only 27 seats were allocated to them as opposed to 37 to ethnic Fijians, despite the near equality...
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  • Naming conventions in Fiji differ greatly, both between and within ethnic groups in Fiji. Indigenous Fijians have a set of cultural practices which today...
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    more Indo-Fijians, who presently comprise less than one percent of the military personnel, to be recruited. (Specifically, as of October 2007, Fiji's military...
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    ethnic Fijians, all of them elected with predominantly Indo-Fijian support from national constituencies. His fourteen-member cabinet included six Fijians, seven...
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    for ethnic Fijians and Rotuman; the remaining five were won by the extremist Fijian Nationalist Party of Sakeasi Butadroka. The 27 Indo-Fijian electorates...
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  • eighty percent of the land is still owned by Fijian tribes, but leased by individuals, including Indo-Fijians. The fear of forced land reform had been one...
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    was heavily weighted in favour of ethnic Fijians, despite their being nearly equal in number to Indo-Fijians. The elections produced little change among...
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    unicameral legislature comprising 36 Fijians (28 elected and 8 appointed by the Great Council of Chiefs), 22 Indo-Fijians, 8 General electors, 1 Rotuman, and...
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    the land is held by indigenous Fijians, under the collective ownership of the traditional Fijian clans. Indo-Fijians produce over 90% of the sugar crop...
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    Indigenous Fijians belong. Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma Hinduism in Fiji Islam in Fiji Catholicism in Fiji Culture of Fiji Indo-Fijians Fijian mythology...
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    Viti Levu (redirect from Viti Levu, Fiji)
    Levu, in part because western Vitu Levu has a high concentration of Indo-Fijians (many of whose ancestors came to the island from India as indentured...
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  • indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians, rather than ideological differences, have been the most visible cleavage of Fijian politics. Later in 2020, Fiji was hit...
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    partly because their own votes had been so fragmented while those of Indo-Fijians had been much more united. President and "father of the nation" Ratu...
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    Fijians in Australia are Indo-Fijians. In 2011, 57% of Fijian-born reported either 'Indian' or 'Fijian-Indian' ancestry. Many Fijian Australians have established...
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    Indo-Fijians by native Fijians; police/government attitude toward crimes against Indo-Fijians by native Fijians; protection available to Indo-Fijians...
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    Indo-Fijians and Chinese on the islands, while Pidgin Hindustani is used by many rural ethnic Fijians and Chinese in areas dominated by Indo-Fijians. The...
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    first case the government was dominated by Indo-Fijians while in the second case it was led by Indo-Fijians. On 15 August 2005, Prime Minister Laisenia...
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  • tensions include wealth (Indo-Fijians are often richer than Indigenous Fijians) and religion (the majority of Indo-Fijians are Hindus, while the majority...
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    had 52 members. Of these, 22 were allocated to indigenous Fijians and another 22 to Indo-Fijians; a further eight were allocated to General Electors (Europeans...
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  • including Indo-Fijians, had applied for nomination, which he described as "a major change" for a party hitherto dominated by indigenous Fijians. Baba announced...
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    Fijians and Indo-Fijians into the official political structure for the first time, and fostered the beginning of a modern political culture in Fiji....
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