TY  - BOOK
AU  - Munro,Doug
AU  - Corbett,Jack
TI  - Bearing Witness: Essays in Honour of Brij V. Lal
T2  - State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Series
SN  - 9781760461225
AV  - HD4875.F55.B43 2017 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Canberra
PB  - ANU Press
KW  - Festschriften
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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