A Study On The Fiji Ethnic Group In The Colonial Period

in the pre-colonial era,Europeans support the indigenous eastern emirate forces to consolidate the interests of Fiji,which increasingly involved in the capitalist world market.In the 1870s,when the Fiji Emirate government met crisis,Fiji annexed by the United Kingdom in 1874,and began a hundred years of colonial rule for Fiji.In the process of colonial rule,the United Kingdom used the traditional feudal authority of Fiji society to implement indirect rule.Indirect governance policies have led to heavy colonial exploitation and oppression by indigenous Fijians,especially the western indigenous Fijians.And the colonial government for the development of colonial farming needs,from India entered a large number of contract workers,these labor contracts after the expiration of the colonial government under the inducement to remain in Fiji,the colonial government this measure on the Fiji's ethnic structure and society Shape has had a very far-reaching impact.At the same time,in the process of the development of the colonies,the Indian community came to become the majority of the ethnic groups.The impact of the changes brought about by the changes in ethnic groups and the differences in the political and economic interests of the various ethnic groups led to the colonial Fiji society filled with ethnic conflicts and conflicts.On the one hand,the colonial government tried to alleviate the clashes and contradictions between ethnic groups by suppressing and reforming,and on the other,using the contradictions and conflicts to consolidate the rule,complicating the clash of ethnic groups in Fiji during the colonial period and thus influencing Fiji Of the independent process.The repeated game of the distribution of the main ethnic groups around the post-independence political interests made the system construction of the independent government very fragile and finally buried the hidden dangers of Fiji's political turmoil after independence.