The Indians In Fiji
p. 93 · Read in the full issue
Any new book on Indians in Fiji is not number one value at present, unless it provides to day’s anxious planners with some clue as to how the Fiji-Indian community is to be peacefully integrated into the rapidly-grow ing country.
Dr. A. C. Mayer, of the Uni versity of London staff, and a trained anthropologist, offers no guiding light. However, follow ing a year’s study in Fiji a de cade ago, and much careful research, he has produced an excellent history of the Indian implantation in Fiji, and of relations between the Indians, the Fijians and Europeans, which will be very helpful to persons attacking this community problem in the Crown Colony.
Dr. Mayer’s facts and statis tics point up the appalling economic and social problems created by an Indian birthrate of 43 per thousand, and a Fijian rate of 37 per thousand. He gives no solution beyond the hope that the two communities be induced somehow to merge, or unite, and live together in
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(INDIANS IN FIJI. Oxford Uni versity Press, Melbourne. 15/9.)