From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Indo-fijians/Norman Buchignani
For a history of Indians in Fiji, readers may consult Brij Lal, Firmitiyas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians (Canberra, 1983); Adrian Mayer, Peasants of the Pacific, 2nd. ed. (London, 1973); and Victor Lal, Fiji: Coups in Paradise (London, 1989).
Norman Buchignani and Doreen Indra, Continuous Journey: A Social History of South Asians in Canada (Toronto, 1985), is a useful general social history that includes material on Indo-Fijian Canadians. A more extensive study is that by Norman Buchignani, “Immigration, Establishment, and the Management of Ethnic Identity” (Ph.D. thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1977).
Other studies, focusing in particular on the family, community, and intergroup relations, include Norman Buchignani, “The Social and Self-Identities of Fijian Indians in Vancouver,” Urban Anthropology, vol.9, no.1 (1980), 75–97, and “Determinants of Fijian Indian Social Organisation in Canada,” in Overseas Indians: A Study in Adaptation, edited by G. Kurian and R. Srivastava (Delhi, 1983), 68–89; and Norman Buchignani and Doreen Indra, “Inter-group Conflict and Community Solidarity: Sikhs and South Asian Fijians in Vancouver,” Canadian Journal of Anthropology/Revue canadienne d’anthropologie, vol.1, no.2 (1981), 149–57.
