ABSTRACT
A new system of labour was devised on the basis of a five years' indenture. In 1915 and 1917, the indenture system was in full force in Fiji. Soon afterwards, in 1920, it was abolished; and since then, the progress has been uninterrupted. Fiji is only one of many colonies wherein the system of indentured labour was practised on the old "slave" estates. With regard to the long and arduous campaign in India which resulted in the abolition of indenture and this chapter briefs a few facts. Mahatma Gandhi, throughout, was the prime mover and inspirer of the struggle. In Natal, at Phoenix, he had lived very close to the indentured labourers and had shared in his own life many of their hard conditions. For in India, in Fiji, and in other lands, there are highly intelligent people to whom English must always remain a foreign language.
