印度裔斐济人是指印度裔斐济公民,他們的祖先来自印度各地以及印度次大陸。 1879年至1916年间,許多南亚人來到斐济務工,當時他們的身份是契约劳工,而且主要在斐济的甘蔗种植园中工作。1956年至1980年代末,印度裔斐济人一度占斐济人口的大多数,1999年5月19日,马亨德拉·乔杜里成为斐济第一位印度裔斐济总理。不過由于后来的人才外流,,斐济总人口为827,900,而印度裔斐济人的数量为313,798 人,只佔斐濟全國的37.6%。
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外部鏈接
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070202072617/http://archives.pireport.org/archive/2006/April/04-27-ft2.htm The Continuing Exodus of Fiji Indians]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061120184040/http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=95001 Chronology for East Indians in Fiji]
- [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DE1F3EF93AA15754C0A96E948260 Why inject Peace Corps teachers into the ethnic arguments roiling Fiji?] New York Times, 29 July 1988
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- [http://www.fijigirmit.org/history.htm Girmit History (on Fiji Girmit.org)]
- [http://www.tamilnation.co/diaspora/fiji.htm Tamils in Fiji]
- [http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=110 "Fiji Islands: From Immigration to Emigration"] , Brij Lal, April
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