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[?]Little Ind ia"
Little Indias have sprung up ughout the world, is cted in an interesting published recently by The of course, started the on to Fiji where over people of Indian descent er cent, of the population) also was the magnet which 1 Indians to countries such tius (352,405 or 67 per cent.) 5 islands of the British ,n.
Indians in Fiji have become rmers, merchants, doctors, and dentists; but those in s are still mostly plantation or labourers in sugar fac- Despite this, they are well -1 politically.
British Caribbean, too, the mostly descendants of ed labourers on the cane lold increasing power in •ritories. laya the 691,431 Indians (12 . of total population) con tie third largest community r ederation. The innumer er Indian communities in- Singapore, 91,029 (8 per Jeylon 969,726 (12 per cent) :
Union of South Africa, 366,664 (3 per cent.) mostly in Natal- Kenya, 127,000 (2 per cent) • Trinidad and Tobago, 250,000 (36 per cent.); British Guiana, 216,000 (46 per cent).
The emigration of Indians has been going on for at least 1,500 years and today more than 4,000.000 people of Indian descent live out side the Indian sub-continent of whom about three-quarters are in countries of the British Common wealth.
In the United Kingdom itself there is estimated to be (including students) about 75,000 Indians and 35,000 Pakistanis.
The Times was wrong in one respect, however. It said: Indians first went to Fiji in 1800. If they
had they would likely have ended in the cooking-ovens. It was over 75 years later that they first arrived in Fiji. t Though French Oceania’s Depart ment of Agriculture announced in November, 1952, that it planned to develop cinchona plantations for an export trade in quinine, recent inquiries indicate that there are no signs of such an industry developing yet. y t Due to the illness of one of the German fight-promoters, contest between Kitione Lava, Tongan heavyweight, and Gunter Nurnberg of Germany, scheduled to take place in Germany on September 28. was indefinitely postponed.