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From 1879 to 1916, over 60,000 Indians migrated to Fiji under the Indentured Labourer Scheme. They were recruited Recruited to work in plantations. Records , the records relating to these Indian migrants include immigration passes, general registers, plantation registers, repatriation registers and death registers.

In a joint project between the National Library of Australia and the National Archives of Fiji, the records are now freely available online through Trove., and include:

[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2586944660 ''Indian immigration passes to Fiji, 1879-1916''] [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2586941841 ''General register of Indian immigrants, 1879-1916''] [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2586939290 ''Plantation register of Indian immigrants, Series 1, 1879-1919''] [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2812077850 ''Plantation register of Indian immigrants, Series 2, 1908-1916''] [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2824274363 ''Plantation register of Indian immigrants, series 3, 1912-1916''] [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2586939847 ''Register of deaths of Indian immigrants, 1879-1927''] [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2754213819 ''Alphabetical list of indentured Indians repatriated to India, 1881-1892''] [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2586943651 ''Register of indentured Indian immigrants repatriated to India 3 May, 1892-22 Jul., 1956''] [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2586942964 ''Register of Fiji born Indians repatriated to India, 6 Sep., 1916-5 May, 1962'']

Many records have been microfilmed by the LDS and are available at LDS In her website [[Family History Centres]]. The following are related to emigration from Indiahttp:   ''Register of deaths of Indian immigration (by plantation), 1899-1922''//girmitiya. Microfilm nosgirmit. '''833149-833150'''org/new/ girmit. These are also available only in Salt Lake Cityorg] Vanita Kumar provides background material and resources to assist family historians researching Indian indentured labourers.