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In November 1901, Mahatma Gandhi visited Mauritius, on his way from South Africa to India. He stayed on the island for two weeks, and urged the Indo-Mauritian community to take an interest in education and to play a more active role in politics. Back in India, he sent over a young lawyer, Manilal Doctor, to improve the plight of the Indo ...
1227. Inscription. 2006 (30th Session) Coordinates. 20°09′31″S 57°30′11″E. / 20.158611°S 57.503056°E / -20.158611; 57.503056. Location of Aapravasi Ghat in Mauritius. Exterior. The Immigration Depot is a building complex located in Port Louis, Mauritius, the first British colony to receive indentured, or contracted, labour ...
On 14 May 2020, the Mauritius Police Force already delivered some 200 000 digital Work Access Permits (WAP) through the online application system put in place on the besafemoris.mu website. Despite the confinement period, self-employed persons, authorised to operate as from 15 May 2020, as well as public and private sector employees gradually ...
In the late 19th to early 20th century, Chinese men in Mauritius married Indian women due to both a lack of Chinese women and the higher numbers of Indian women on the island. The 1921 census in Mauritius counted that Indian women there had a total of 148 children fathered by Chinese men. These Chinese were mostly traders.
The United Kingdom, at the request of the United States, began expelling the inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago in 1968, concluding its forced deportations on 27 April 1973 with the expulsion of the remaining Chagossians on the Peros Banhos atoll. [1] [2] The inhabitants, known at the time as the Ilois, [3] are today known as Chagos ...
Coordinates: 20.285°S 57.552°E. Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Medical College (SSRMC), created in 1999, [1] is the first medical college of Mauritius, established by the Indian Ocean Medical Institute Trust (IOMIT) in Mauritius in the memory of the 'father of the nation', late Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam. Rudra Pratap Narain Singh, an educationist ...
The Mauritius Qualifications Authority (MQA) is the government organisation responsible for setting educational standards and accrediting qualifications. Its head office is in Vacoas-Phoenix . [1]
Manilal Maganlal Doctor (28 July 1881 – 8 January 1956) was a British Indian barrister and politician, who travelled to numerous countries of the British Empire, including Fiji, Mauritius and Aden, providing legal assistance to the local ethnic Indian population. He met Gandhi, who asked him to go to Mauritius, where he represented Indo ...