02/11/2025
🇲🇺 Commemorating the Arrival of Indentured Labourers in Mauritius
Today, we honor the courage, resilience, and legacy of the men and women who came to our shores as indentured labourers. Their hard work, sacrifices, and traditions helped shape the Mauritius we know and love today, a land of diversity, culture, and unity. 🙏✨
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As you discover our island, may you also feel the deep history and heritage that lives within its people and places.
In the district of Port Louis, lies the 1,640 m2 site where the modern indentured labour diaspora began. In 1834, the British Government selected the island of Mauritius to be the first site for what it called ‘the ...