thread: Where does the term "Girmit" come from?
#girmit #girmitiya #fiji #indenturedlabours #indofijian #coolie
[Image 1 description: yellow background with dalo (taro) leaves and ganna (sugarcane). Text in pink reads: Where does the term Girmit come from]
#girmit #girmitiya #fiji #indenturedlabours #indofijian #coolie
[Image 1 description: yellow background with dalo (taro) leaves and ganna (sugarcane). Text in pink reads: Where does the term Girmit come from]
[Image 2 description: yellow background with dalo (taro) leaves and ganna (sugarcane). Text in pink reads: The term Girmit comes from indentured labour as a way to pronounce the English word agreement]
[Image 3 description: yellow background with dalo (taro) leaves and ganna (sugarcane). Text in pink reads: The majority of our Girmit ancestors could not speak or write english and the “contract” or agreement became known as Girmit]
[Image 4 description: yellow background with dalo (taro) leaves and ganna (sugarcane). Text in pink reads: The term Girmit originated as a way to refer to lower caste labourers in Northern districts of the subcontinent. i.e present day Uttar Pradesh and Bihar]
[Image 5 description: yellow background with dalo leaves and ganna. Text in pink reads: The British officials referred to indentured labourers in Fiji as “coolies” but among the labourers themselves the term Girmit formed an identity which tells a story of their colonisation]
[Image 6 description: yellow background with dalo (taro) leaves and ganna (sugarcane). Text in pink reads: Today Girmit and Girmitiyas are part of our identity when talking about descendants of indentured labour within the context of Fiji]
[Image 7 description: yellow background with dalo leaves and ganna. Text in pink reads: The Bad Fiji Gyals use the term Girmit as it honours our communities and ancestors' way of identifying. Girmit as a term gives us space to respect and uphold the labour of our dead]
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