Fiji is located deep in the Pacific Ocean, why are there so many Indians?

Because in the past, many Indians went to Fiji to work and live. The two largest powerful countries in Oceania are Australia and New Zealand. Although the economies of other countries are difficult to compare with them, Fiji is also developing well. However, relevant surveys point out that 40% of the country's population is Indian. So why there are so many Indians, we have to start with the former United Kingdom.

Fiji was discovered by the Dutch in 1643 AD, but European colonists were not interested in it. It was not until 1874 that Britain took control of Fiji, and Fiji became a British colony. On this land, there is a particularly strange tree species, which is the famous sandalwood. You know, people in the Qing Dynasty were particularly fond of sandalwood at that time, and the Qing Dynasty was having trade relations with the United Kingdom at that time. So the British decided to go to Fiji to cut down the sandalwood and transport it to the Qing Dynasty to sell it to make profits.

This country is actually not very large, and the resources of sandalwood are also limited. So it was cut down heavily by the British and it was almost gone, so the British decided to plant sugar cane on this land, because sugar cane can be made into sugar, but if you want to plant sugar cane, you need a lot of manpower, but There were not many indigenous people in this land, and the British themselves did not engage in manual labor. Then they thought of India, his largest colony. Later, he brought a lot of labor force from India by ship to work on sugar cane. The British also established a so-called sugar company in this country, growing a large amount of sugar cane and making sugar to sell for money.

As a result, a bunch of Indians came here to survive, and the fertility of Indians is very powerful. Therefore, the number of Indians in this country has increased very rapidly, and they have continuously grown to become the largest ethnic group. Therefore, even though Fiji is thousands of miles away from India, there are still a lot of Indians.