Indian members of the Legislative Council of Fiji information

The number of Fiji Indians that could be elected to the Legislative Council was fixed over the years as follows: 1916 - 1929 - one nominated member. 1929...

The Legislative Council of Fiji was the colonial precursor to the present-day Parliament, which came into existence when Fiji became independent on 10...

Fiji. He was the first Indian member of the Legislative Council serving for two periods between 1916 and 1923 and 1926 to 1929 as a nominated member,...

indigenous Fijian members were all nominated by the Great Council of Chiefs. Ratu Sukuna was chosen as the first Speaker. Although the Legislative Council still...

the first Indo-Fijian to qualify as a lawyer. He served one term as member of the Legislative Council and three terms as the President of Fiji Indian...

in the 1968 by-election. For a long time, she remained the sole Indian female member of the Legislative Council. Irene Narayan was elected to the Dominion...

amongst the Fiji Indian cane farmers of the Company, he started organising the farmers union in secret concentrating among the young members of the community...

April 1993) was a Fijian Indian politician, Statesman and Opposition leader. He succeeded to the leadership of the mostly Indo-Fijian National Federation...

December 1973) was an Indo-Fijian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives for most of the period between 1947 and...

War II, Fiji began to take its first steps towards internal self-government. The Legislative Council was expanded to 32 members in 1953, 15 of them elected...

Fijians, Indo-Fijians, and Europeans). Ratu Sukuna was chosen as the first Speaker. Although the Legislative Council still had few of the powers of the...

Indo-Fijian politician who was a member of the Legislative Council from 1932 to 1937. In 1933 he became Fiji's first Indo-Fijian Justice of the Peace...

1900 – 7 May 1968) was the first Fiji born and bred leader of the Indo-Fijians. From his initial election to the Legislative Council in 1929 to his retirement...

Fiji (/ˈfiːdʒi/ FEE-jee, /fiːˈdʒiː/ fee-JEE; Fijian: Viti, [ˈβitʃi]; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in...

1963 had 37 members. There were 12 elected members, four from each of the Fijian, Indian and European groups chosen on a communal franchise. The Governor...

The Indians in Fiji are mainly descendants of the 15,132 contract labourers who were brought to Fiji between 1903 and 1916. This represents about 25% out...

The Indian Association of Fiji is the name used by organisations established in Fiji seeking to unite different groups within the Fiji Indian community...

Minister of Fiji as head of government. The executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Parliament...

This article contains a list of British Indians members of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Shaji, K. a (2017-08-20)...

Maharaj ) was one of the three Indo-Fijians elected to the Legislative Council of Fiji in October 1929 when Indo-Fijians were given the first opportunity...

member of the Indian Platoon until it was disbanded in 1940. In 1950 he was appointed to the Legislative Council as one of the nominated Indo-Fijian members...

Fiji Legislative Council. Some modern Muslim migrants from Arab Countries such as Sudan, Yemen and Egypt also have settled in Fiji forming a Fijian-Arab...