It was clear there was no room for ethnic Indians in Fiji's new government.

Most tribal land still owned by ethnic Indians was recollectivized in 1934.

As many as 8,000 citizens, mainly ethnic Indians of high professional or technical skills, are estimated to have emigrated.

In 2008 6,106 ethnic Indians were interviewed of which 38.8 percent were hired.

The ethnic Malays take up about 10% and ethnic Indians roughly 5%.

The party was open to all races of Malaya, but received support mainly from ethnic Indians.

They asserted that ethnic Indians could not be trusted to reach crucial decisions on native land matters.

They are slightly outnumbered by ethnic Indians in the population of 714,000.

Today, however, many of these same ethnic Indians have returned.

A small majority of Singapore's ethnic Indians (55%) are Hindu.