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The words to these two songs describe the dire living conditions endured by Indian indentured labourers working on sugar plantations in Fiji in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Reference: J. S. Kanwal, A hundred years of Hindi in Fiji. Suva: Fiji Teachers' Union, 1980, pp. 34, 39.
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