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Levelling Wind : Remembering Fiji.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (594 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760462673
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Levelling WindDDC classification:
  • 996.11
LOC classification:
  • DU600 .L35 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: '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.
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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.

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