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Notes
1. Chan E.S. Choenni, ‘From Bharat to Sri Ram Desh: The Emigration of Indian Indentured Labourers to Suriname’, in Rajesh Rai and Peter Reeves (eds), South Asian Diaspora: Transnational Networks and Changing Identities (London: Routledge, 2009), p. 116.
2. Sudesh Mishra, ‘Time and Girmit’, in Social Text, Vol. 23, no. 1 (2005), pp. 15–36.
3. Giriraj Kishore, Pehla Girmitiya (New Delhi: Bhartiya Gyanpeeth, 2011).
4. The title of my first book was Girmitiyas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians (Canberra: Journal of Pacific History Monograph, 1983, rpr. 2004).
5. Fiji Dvip Me Mere Ikkis Varsh was first published in 1914 and the second edition in several Indian languages in Kanpur in 1919.
6. Brij V. Lal, Ashutosh Kumar and Yogendra Yadav, Bhut Len ki Katha: Girmit ke Anubhav: Totaram Sanadhya (The Story of the Haunted Line: The Experience of Girmit) (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 2012).
7. See C.F. Andrews, Indentured Labour in Fiji: An Independent Enquiry (Calcutta, 1916).
8. See K.L. Gillion, The Fiji Indians: Challenge to European Dominance, 1920–1946 (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1977).
9. Hugh Tinker, A New System of Slavery (London: Oxford University Press, 1993).
10. Gerad Tikasingh, Trinidad during the 19th Century: The Indian Experience (Port of Spain, 2012), pp. x–xi.