Intro -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- 'For the loser now will be later to win' -- Ni Sa Bula / Namaskar / G'Day -- Part 1: Past Present: Indenture and its Legacy -- 1. Memories of indenture -- 2. 'Such a long journey': The story of indenture -- 3. The Tamarind Tree -- 4. 'A most callous indifference' -- 5. Transitions and transformations -- 6. Illusion of hope: Aisha and Bhaskar -- 7. 'The burden of remembrance' -- 8. Frequent flyers -- 9. Mr Arjun goes to Australia -- 10. 'The children of the wind' -- Part 2: Future Tense: Witnessing History -- 11. While the gun is still smoking -- 12. The road to independence -- 13. Where has all the music gone? -- 14. Towards a united future -- 15. George Speight's putsch improbable -- 16. Laisenia Qarase's missed chance -- 17. A coup by any other name -- 18. Entrenching illegality -- 19. The strange career of a 'clean‑up' coup -- 20. Between a rock and a hard place -- Part 3: Retrospection -- 21. Exile and a land of memory: Brij V. Lal, Indo-Fijian scholar activist -- 22. 'Of exits and entrances' -- 23. ANU made me, but which ANU is mine? -- Bibliography -- About the author.
'Professor Brij Lal's life is a remarkable journey of a scholar and an intellectual whose writings are truly transformative; a man of moral clarity and courage who also has deep pain at being cut off from his homeland.' -- Professor Michael Wesley, Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.