Indo-Fijians are Fijians whose ancestors came from India and various parts of South Asia and South-East Asia. They number 313798 (37.6%) (2007 census) out of a total of 827900 people living in Fiji. They are mostly descended from indentured labourers girmitiyas or girmit brought to the islands by Fiji’s British colonial rulers between 1879 and 1916 to work on Fiji’s sugar cane plantations.
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