Ujagar Singh Ujagar Singh (22/06/1924 - 31/07/2021) (alias: Ujagar Singh Aujla) was a teacher, politician and union leader, who made significant contribution to education and unionism in Fiji and was a founding member of the National Federation Party. He was born in Nasinu and educated at Marist Brothers High School. He then went to India and graduated from Punjab University as a Civil Engineer and a teacher. He was also a member of the India Society of Engineers. He lived in India for a while before returning to Fiji in 1959. Singh was involved in the administration of Khasla High School and became one of its first teachers in 1960. His teaching career led him to be Principal at Ba Sangam High School and Lautoka Muslim High School. He retired from teaching in 1968 to enter politics. In 1959, when the Federation of Cane Growers was formed to negotiate cane contract with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Singh was chosen as its Assistant Secretary and pla...
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Totaram Sanadhya Totaram Sanadhya (1876 - 1947) was an indentured labourer who, after completing his five-year term, dedicated his life to helping those still under the indenture system in Fiji and to contributing to ending the evil system. Sanadhya was born in the village of Hirangaon, in the district of Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh in India in 1876. The death of his father caused him to leave his village in search of employment to support his family. One day he met an arkhati (recruiter of indentured labourers), who offered him a job. Although he was of Brahmin caste, he was asked lie about his caste to increase his chances of being recruited. He came to Fiji on 28 May 1893 abroad the ship Jumna and was assigned to the CSR's estate in Nausori. When he finished the mandated five years of indenture, he was penniless. he borrowed money to lease land to grow sugarcane. He knew that he would not have been able make enough money with farming, so he supplemented his income by working a...
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Brij V. Lal Professor Brij Vilash Lal OF , AM, FAHA (1952-2021) was a renowned historian, who was an authority on the history of Fiji Indians. He was a brilliant academic and his views were sought Fiji's history, as well as, the current social and political situation. He spent his last 12 years exiled in Australia for giving his frank assessment of the political situation in Fiji. Lal was born on 21 August 1952 into a farming family in Tabia in Vanua Levu, the second largest island in the Fiji Islands. He was the grandson of indentured labourer who had arrived in Fiji in 1908. After obtained his primary school education at Tabia Sanatan Dharam Primary School and secondary school education at Labasa Secondary School (now Labasa College). He enrolled at the University of the South Pacific on a Government scholarship to train as a high school teacher. He graduated at the top of his class with Bachelor of Arts and joined the University of the South Pacific as...