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| name = Fiji Samachar फिजी समाचार<br />
| type = Newspaper<br />
| owners = Indian Printing and Publishing Company<br />
| founded = 1924<br />
| language = [[Hindi]]<br />
| ceased_publication = 1974<br />
| publishing_city = [[Suva]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Fiji Samachar''''' (Fiji News) was a [[Hindi]] language newspaper published in [[Fiji]] from 1924 to 1974. It was published in [[Suva]] by the Indian Printing and Publishing Company and its first editor was [[Ram Singh (Fiji)|Babu Ram Singh]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Kanwal |first=J. S. |title=A Hundred years of Hindi in Fiji |year=1980 |publisher=Fiji Teachers Union |location=Suva, Fiji | page= 92 }}</ref> <br />
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== History ==<br />
The newspaper started as a bi-lingual Hindi and English Monthly newspaper but from 1935 became a weekly Hindi newspaper. The editorial committee was headed by Pandit [[Vishnu Deo]] and included Pandit [[Ami Chandra]] and Pandit [[Gopendra Narayan Pathik]], all active members of the [[Arya Samaj in Fiji]] and consequently the newspaper was seen as the mouthpiece of the Arya Samaj. In the 1930s Vishnu Deo became the editor.<br />
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The newspaper was involved in a number of controversies. In 1927, the newspaper was sued for making [[allegation]]s against some [[Indians in Fiji|Fiji Indian]] civil servants, with Ram Singh and Vishnu Deo being charged but the charges were withdrawn after a public apology arranged by [[S. B. Patel]].<ref>{{cite book| last = Sharma | first = Guru Dayal | title = Memories of Fiji: 1887 - 1987 | publisher =Guru Dayal Sharma, Suva, Fiji | date = 1987 | page = 136 }}</ref> In 1932, Deo was convicted of publishing objectionable material against the religious practices of others in the newspaper.<br />
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In early 1943, the Fiji Government suspended the publication of ''Fiji Samachar'' for six months after it published record of the meeting of Central Indian Was Committee in November 1942, in which most of the speakers took the view that [[Demographics of India|Indians]] could not be expected to enlist for the army unless they were paid the same as [[European ethnic groups|European]]s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gillion |first=K. L. |title=The Fiji Indians: Challenge to European dominance 1920-1946 |year=1977 |publisher=Australian National University Press |location=Canberra, Australia |isbn=0-7081-1291-9| page= 178 }}</ref><br />
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The ''Fiji Samachar'' enjoyed wide readership during the period from 1929 to 1959 when Vishnu Deo was active in politics, but lost its readers to numerous other Hindi language newspapers which began publication in the 1960s. In 1963 the newspaper was sold to S. M. Bidesi and labour problems caused it to cease publication in 1974.<br />
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[[Category:1924 establishments in Fiji]]<br />
[[Category:1974 disestablishments in Fiji]]<br />
[[Category:Defunct newspapers published in Fiji]]<br />
[[Category:Hindi-language newspapers published in Fiji]]<br />
[[Category:Indian diaspora in Fiji]]<br />
[[Category:Newspapers established in 1924]]<br />
[[Category:Publications disestablished in 1974]]</div>JaimieCarrigan