Fiji Samachar

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Fiji Samachar was a Hindi language newspaper published weekly in Fiji from 1923 to 1975. It was published in Suva by the Indian Printing and Publishing Company and its first editor was Babu Ram Singh. Vishnu Deo became its editor in the 1930s and consequently the newspaper was seen as the mouthpiece of the Arya Samaj in Fiji of which Deo was a leader figure. In 1932, Deo was convicted of publishing objectionable material against the religious practices of others in the newspaper. 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.