[1]: 21 Some people who stated their home province as being Punjab were recruited from other parts of India and boarded ships to Fiji from Calcutta.

[1]: 21  The first Sikh free migrants came to Fiji as part of the group of seventy Punjabis who were lured into coming to New Caledonia, in 1904, on the understanding that high wages were paid there.

Some came to Fiji to make it easier for them to enter North America, Australia, New Zealand and even Argentina.

[4] The first-choice destination for prospective Sikh immigrants in India were Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

[1]: 22  However, when these countries started restricting the migration of South Asians coming in, then many Sikhs settled for their second-choice, which was Malaya and Fiji.

[1]: 22 Legal migration of Sikhs to Fiji continued until 1930, when higher restrictions were placed upon South Asian arrivals.

These Indians, who were Sikhs, were paid a good monthly wage, and expressed themselves, on the whole, contented with their position.

[5] Walter Gill, who served as an overseer for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company in Lautoka during the final years of indenture, has also written about significant numbers of Sikhs employed in the Western Division of Fiji to police the Indian population.

Once Tamavua and Nasinu areas (near Suva) had a large concentration of Sikhs and in 1939 First Shri Guru Ravidass Gurudwara outside India was established in Nasinu 6 miles at the corner of Kings Road and Caqiri Road (Next to Singh's Caqiri Shopping Centre).The founding fathers of this Guru Ravidass Gurudwara , registered this Guru Ghar under the banner of the AD-Punjab Association which came from Punjab India in the early 1900s.

Most Sikhs from the settlements around Suva have emigrated to the United States and Canada and some have moved to the Western Division to undertake cane farming.

There is another temple in Lautoka City, built to cater for the needs of the Sikhs in the Sabeto Valley, but many of these have either left for overseas or moved into the neighbouring settlement of Vutualevu.