Navigating the smallpox threat in colonial Fiji: Vaccination endeavours and historical challenges

M Alam - Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Upon its cession from 1874 to 1970, Fiji was under the British colonial government, and the
colonial government attempted to control the spread of smallpox in the colony. The …

Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920

M Wright - Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies, 2024 - eprints.soas.ac.uk
Indian women represented something of a persistent problem for colonial officials. The
Indian Government consistently emphasized the importance of obtaining high numbers of …