Banjara
$29.63
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2026
Summary
A powerful literary debut from an astonishing new Kiwi voice, focusing on the Indo-Fijian indenture system and how it affected generations across the Pacific.
Rajasthan 1888: Avani Rathod, a nomad of the Banjara community, is summoned to teach a blue-eyed colonial officer the trees of her region, but instead is misled into indenture to the sugarcane plantations of Fiji. While on the voyage that leads her away from her ancestral land, Avani’s baby forms in her belly an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781869718411 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1869718410 |
| Author: | Shana Chandra |
| Publisher: | Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand |
| Imprint: | Moa Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 233mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Shana Chandra
Shana Chandra is a Tamaki Makaurau born writer, researcher and educator of Indo-Fijian heritage and Girmitiya descent, currently based in Limoges, France. Her writing voices the history of her displaced and forgotten indentured-labourer ancestors in their words, repairing and restoring it from beneath the empire’s shadow and exploring how the violence and complexities of their indenture rooted into her life growing up in Aotearoa. After living in Japan and Naarm (Melbourne), in 2016 she completed her Masters of Creative Writing at the University of Technology in Sydney. Her writing has appeared in Lindsay, Love in the Time of Covid Chronicle, UTS Anthology: The Light Borrowers and Landfall magazine. For the past decade Shana has also worked as a freelance writer and has been featured in international fashion, arts and culture publications.
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