• Dr Rashmi Kapoor

People of Indian origin in Mauritius had gone to the land which had no original inhabitants. People from France, Africa, China and India had gone to Mauritius at different phases of time as per the requirement of the Mauritian State. The first migration of Indians to Mauritius was in seventeenth century mostly of slaves. But the large scale migration of Indians was in the 19th century after the abolition of the slavery in 1883 AD. Indentured labour went to Mauritius to work in the sugar plantation. Initially Indians went for a short period of five years. After the completion of indenture, some returned to India but majority stayed back and made Mauritius their home. Some of those who stayed back moved to the villages and recreated their society on the patterns of the life they left behind in India. People from different regions, different castes and different occupations came together. Representations of almost all the castes could be found but at the level of pan-Indian Varna system. A complete representation of all jatis which are the operational unit of caste system were not present. Therefore, a complete caste system, akin to the Indian caste system could not be replicated. Still a quasi-caste system that shaped did provide some affinity to the people and generated the similar response as was the case in India. The influence of the modernizing factors brought about changes both in the caste structure and the caste system of the Indo-Mauritians. The article attempts to analyse the impact of modernizing factors on the caste structure of the Indo-Mauritians.

Modernization and the Caste Structure of the Indian Diaspora in Mauritius

"Modernization and the Caste Structure of the Indian Diaspora in Mauritius", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.654-658, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Y21.pdf

"Modernization and the Caste Structure of the Indian Diaspora in Mauritius", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp654-658, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Y21.pdf