My Twenty-one Years in the Fiji Islands ; And, The Story of the Haunted Line

Download or read book My Twenty-one Years in the Fiji Islands ; And, The Story of the Haunted Line written by Totaram Sanadhya and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Totaram Sanadhya came to Fiji as a ginnitiya, or indentured labourer, in 1893. In 1914, he returned to India and together with Benarsides Chaturvedi wrote this book, a powerful indictment of the indentured labour system and the treatment of Indians in Fiji. ... It was one of the most frequently used sources of information and argument during the public movement in Inmdia that led to the abolition of indenture in the 1910s; the movement Gandhi later called the first national sayagraba. ... [This] volume also includes an English translation of The story of the haunted line: a moving story of a man saved from fear and despair by Hindu devotion and the friendship of ethnic Fijians."--Back cover.