KVANTA.UA E-books

Read Online or Download A Vision for Change: AD Patel and the Politics of Fiji PDF

Similar leaders & notable people books

Download e-book for kindle: The Life and Death of Harold Holt by Tom Frame

The 1st complete size biography of Australia's so much enigmatic top minister.

In the Polish Secret War: Memoir of a World War II Freedom - download pdf or read online

Born within the Polish village of Gaj in 1923, Marian Mazgaj was once whilst Germany invaded his nation and introduced Poland into the strive against of global battle II. Too younger to affix the Polish military, inside many years he turned a member of the Sandomierz Flying Commando Unit, a unit which merged with the Jedrus Polish underground crew.

Download e-book for iPad: Far to Go (P.S.) by Alison Pick

The Loneliest Boy in the World: The Last Child of the Great by Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain PDF

Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain had a distinct youth - he used to be the final baby cited at the Blasket Islands off Ireland's southwest coast. the closest in age used to be his uncle who was once thirty years older. during this affectionate memoir, Gear¢id remembers becoming up at the island with no healthcare professional, priest, institution, church, or electrical energy.

• William and Kate
• Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman
• A prairie populist: the memoirs of Luna Kellie
• Governor John Wentworth and the American Revolution: The English Connection
• Rommel: The Trail of the Fox (Wordsworth Military Library)
• The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority

Extra resources for A Vision for Change: AD Patel and the Politics of Fiji

Example text

Political ambition would naturally have been a factor: Patel was no saint. As an aspiring political leader, he must have mapped out the cultural and social contours of the Indian landscape and assessed the best path to take him forward. But perhaps there are other reasons as well for Patel’s involvement in the concerns of the Indian farmers. He had been a part of the landed gentry of Gujarat, many of whose members were variously engaged in agriculture, either cultivating or overseeing the cultivation of such crops as spiked millet (bajari), pigeon pea (tuver), sesame, castor, chillies and culinary spices, and such cash crops as cotton and tobacco which grew well in the fertile soil of the Charotar.

Soon after arriving in Fiji, Patel set up his legal practice at Renwick Road in Suva, which was then the heart of the Gujarati (Patidari) business community. A few years later, he moved to Ba, which by the 1930s had become the dominant area of Indian settlement. While he retained an office in that sugar town, Patel moved to Nadi in the mid-1930s, and he remained there for the rest of his life, except for a brief period in the mid-1960s, when he was the Member of Social Services and lived in Tamavua, Suva.

7 per cent of the state’s total land area) lies in this fertile central region of Gujarat. Within the state, this region is known as the Charotar, the name generally thought to derive from the Sanskrit word Charu (beautiful), but there are other interpretations as well. To most Gujaratis, the cultural and political boundaries of the Kheda district and the Charotar region are one and the same thing. The prosperity of the Charotar region impressed early English visitors. Alexander Kinloch Forbes wrote in 1878: The fields are, in the richer part of the province, enclosed with strong and high permanent hedges, which, with the noble trees that everywhere abound, render the country so close, that the boundaries of a field circumscribe the view, and unless the hum of voices, the whirr of the spinning wheel, or the barking of dogs, gives him notice of its vicinity, the traveller may enter a village almost unawares.

Download PDF sample