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Bearing Witness : Essays in Honour of Brij V. Lal.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (350 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760461225
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bearing WitnessLOC classification:
  • HD4875.F55.B43 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Brij Over Troubled Waters -- Editors' Introduction -- In His Own Words -- 1. Indenture and Contemporary Fiji -- 2. From the Sidelines -- 3. Curtain Call -- Indenture -- 4. Brij V. Lal: Rooting for History -- 5. Girmitiyas and my Discovery of India -- 6. Reflections on Brij Lal's Girmityas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians -- Fiji Politics -- 7. A Political Paradox: The Common Franchise Question and Ethnic Conflict in Fiji's Decolonisation -- 8. Constituting Common Futures: Reflecting from Singapore about Decolonisation in Fiji -- 9. Ethnicity, Politics and Constitutions in Fiji -- 10. The Fiji Election of 2014: Rights, Representation and Legitimacy in Fiji Politics -- Family Album -- Literature -- 11. Unfettering the Mind: Imagination, Creative Writing and the Art of the Historian -- 12. Autobiography and Faction -- Tributes -- 13. Aloha e Brij -- 14. In the Shadow of the Master Carver -- 15. Meetings with the Three Lals: That's Brij Lal, Professor Lal and Brij V. Lal -- 16. The Boy from Labasa -- 17. My Fijian Wantok -- He is the Very Model of a Pacific Historian -- Bibliography of Brij V. Lal's Academic Writings.
Summary: This Festschrift volume celebrates, reflects upon and extends the life and work of this colourful scholar. The essays, whose contributors are drawn from across the globe, do more than review Brij V. Lal's work; they also probe his contribution to both scholarly and political life.
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Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Brij Over Troubled Waters -- Editors' Introduction -- In His Own Words -- 1. Indenture and Contemporary Fiji -- 2. From the Sidelines -- 3. Curtain Call -- Indenture -- 4. Brij V. Lal: Rooting for History -- 5. Girmitiyas and my Discovery of India -- 6. Reflections on Brij Lal's Girmityas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians -- Fiji Politics -- 7. A Political Paradox: The Common Franchise Question and Ethnic Conflict in Fiji's Decolonisation -- 8. Constituting Common Futures: Reflecting from Singapore about Decolonisation in Fiji -- 9. Ethnicity, Politics and Constitutions in Fiji -- 10. The Fiji Election of 2014: Rights, Representation and Legitimacy in Fiji Politics -- Family Album -- Literature -- 11. Unfettering the Mind: Imagination, Creative Writing and the Art of the Historian -- 12. Autobiography and Faction -- Tributes -- 13. Aloha e Brij -- 14. In the Shadow of the Master Carver -- 15. Meetings with the Three Lals: That's Brij Lal, Professor Lal and Brij V. Lal -- 16. The Boy from Labasa -- 17. My Fijian Wantok -- He is the Very Model of a Pacific Historian -- Bibliography of Brij V. Lal's Academic Writings.

This Festschrift volume celebrates, reflects upon and extends the life and work of this colourful scholar. The essays, whose contributors are drawn from across the globe, do more than review Brij V. Lal's work; they also probe his contribution to both scholarly and political life.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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