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100	1	0	_aClaveyrolas, Mathieu _eauthor
245	0	0	_aHinduism in the Mauritian Landscape: Transfer and Appropriation
260			_c2010.
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520			_aMauritius is a young nation born from a plantation society and many migratory movements. The Mauritian nation was built on the demographic majority of the descendants of Hindu indentured labourers. This Indo-Mauritian community defends its legitimity to represent and govern the nation, but also its specificity comparing with other Mauritian communities. Slavery and the rupture with roots as crucial to a Creole identity are replaced by the Indian heritage supposedly brought and preserved by Indian labourers. Between a Creole Hinduism (born from contact between cultures in a plantation society context) and temptations to trace its roots back to India, the Hindu community in Mauritius managed to locally anchor its religious practices, which I study through the invention of Mauritius as a Hindu territory and the appropriation of public space through the ever-growing number of religious sites.
690			_aMauritius
690			_adiaspora
690			_amigration
690			_areligious landscape
690			_ahinduism
690			_atemples
786	0		_nAutrepart | o 56 | 4 | 2010-12-06 | p. 17-37 | 1278-3986
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-autrepart-2010-4-page-17?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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