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By Brij V Lal
A Time Bomb Lies Buried discusses the debates which happened in Suva and London in addition to the politics and approaches which led Fiji to independence in 1970 after ninety six years of colonial rule. It presents a vital history to realizing the crises and convulsions that have haunted Fiji ever for the reason that in its look for a constitutional payment for its multiethnic inhabitants.
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17 On the future of the Fijian Administration, about which Amery had expressed firm views, Poynton said that the CO accepted that its abolition in the present circumstances was ‘just not on’, though he hoped that ‘something should be done to streamline and modernise it insofar it affects the development of individualism amongst the Fijians’. In particular, he encouraged the governor to encourage galala (independent) farming. ‘We think that an increase in the number of galala would encourage enlightened self-interest amongst the Fijians and probably bring them into greater contact with the realities of life and possibly also with Indians and Europeans.
The letter reminded the CO of the ‘insistence of the Fijian people that the initiative for any constitutional change should come from them’. The Wakaya Letter, with its demand for Fijian veto power on matters of constitutional change, was a powerful negotiating document with wide-ranging implications. Its existence became known publicly in January 1963 — long after it was first presented. 49 He undertook to examine the proposal for Fiji to have a relationship similar to that the United Kingdom enjoyed with the Channel Islands.
1964, The Career of Arthur Hamilton Gordon: First Lord Stanmore, 1829–1912, University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 10 For a detailed description of the original system of indirect rule, see Legge (1958:[n. 15]). 11 As pointed out by, among others, Peter France in his remarkable book The Charter of the Land: Custom and Colonisation in Fiji (1969, Oxford University Press, Melbourne). 12 For more on Fijian land tenure and related issues, see Kamikamica, Josefata 1997, ‘Fiji native land: issues and challenges’, in B.