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फ़िजी के हिंदुस्तानी / فجی کے ہندوستانی | |
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 Fiji ethnic map (2017 census) Orange is for Indo-Fijian | |
| Total population | |
| 460,000 32.7% of the population of Fiji (2017) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Fiji | 289,237 (2017 census)[1] |
 Australia | 61,748 (2016 census)[2] |
 New Zealand | 38,310 (2022 census)[3] |
 United States | 30,890 (2000 figure)[4] |
 Canada | 24,665 (2016 census)[5] |
| Languages | |
| Fiji Hindi • English • Pidgin Fijian • Fijian Bau • Others | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: Hinduism (76.7%) Minority: Islam (15.9%), Christianity (6.1%), others (1.3 %) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Indo-Caribbeans, Indians in South Africa, Indo-Mauritians, Indo-Guyanese, Indo-Surinamese, Indo-Jamaicans, Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian, Indian Singaporeans, Malaysian Indians, Kenyan Asians | |
Indo-Fijians (Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी के हिंदुस्तानी / فجی کے ہندوستانی), are Fijians of South Asian descent whose ancestors were indentured labourers. Indo-Fijians trace their ancestry to various regions of the Indian subcontinent.
Although Indo-Fijians constituted a majority of Fiji's population from 1956 through to the late 1980s, discrimination and the resulting brain drain resulted in them numbering 313,798 (37.6%) (2007 census) out of a total of 827,900 people living in Fiji as of 2007[update].[6] Although they hailed from various regions in the subcontinent, just about half of Indo-Fijians trace their origins to the Awadh and Bhojpur regions of the Hindi Belt in northern India.[7] Indo-Fijians speak Fiji Hindi in Fiji also known as 'Fiji Baat' which is based on the Awadhi dialect with influence from Bhojpuri. It is a koiné language with its own grammatical features, distinct to the Modern Standard Hindi and Modern Standard Urdu spoken in South Asia.[8] The major home districts of Fiji's North Indian labourers were Basti, Gonda, Lucknow, Kanpur, Faizabad, Ballia, Ghazipur, Gorakhpur, Sultanpur, Siwan, Shahabad, Saran, and Azamgarh, in the present-day Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh and the present-day Bhojpur region of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.[9] Others (in a smaller quantity) originated in West Bengal, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and the Telugu regions. A small contingent of indentured labourers came from Afghanistan and Nepal. Many of the Muslim Indo-Fijians also came from Sindh, West Punjab and various other parts of South Asia. Fiji's British colonial rulers brought South Asian people to the Colony of Fiji as indentured labourers between 1879 and 1916 to work on Fiji's sugar-cane plantations, with a small minority were also used in Rice farming.
Mahendra Chaudhry became Fiji's first Indo-Fijian Prime Minister on 19 May 1999.
- ^ [https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/fd6bb849099f46869125089fd13579ec
- ^ "Australian demographic statistics" (PDF).
- ^ Birthplace and people born overseas Archived 1 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "People born in Fiji" (PDF).
- ^ "2016 Canadian census". 27 October 2017.
- ^ "Fiji population up 50,000 in 10 yrs". Fijilive. 31 October 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
- ^ Walker, Anthony R. (2005). "Indo-Fijians speak in Fiji". Encyclopedia of Diasporas. pp. 836–850. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-29904-4_86. ISBN 978-0-306-48321-9.
- ^ "Fiji Hindi". Lonweb.org. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
- ^ "The forgotten story of India's colonial slave workers who began leaving home 180 years ago". 3 November 2014.
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