Fiji Hindi has been subject to considerable influence by original Bhojpuri.
Raman Subramani, professor in literature at the University of the South Pacific, who wrote the first Fiji Hindi novel, Duaka Puraan (Devanagari:  , 2001), which is the story of Fiji Lal (an old villager) as told by him to a visiting scholar to his village
 The census reports of 1956 and 1966 shows the extent to which Fiji Hindi (referred to as 'Hindustani' in the census) was being spoken in Indo-Fijian households

