Africa-Press – Mauritius. From a talk on Gujarati merchants in Mauritius to a film about a boy who lost his mother and much more, here’s what is happening in Gujarat this week. Event name: A Haunted House: Gujarati Merchants and Plantation Histories between Mauritius and Gujarat
Assistant Professor of History at University of Southern California Ketaki Pant, in this talk, will discuss the history of Gujarati merchants in Mauritius’ plantation economy in the 19th century.
Retelling the story of one plantation, Bel Ombre, which was variously owned by French planters and Gujarati merchants in the nineteenth century, Pant will look at what has been recorded and what has been obscured in the archival annals over the years and how Gujarati merchants received patronage of the colonial state in Mauritius, including them being able to marry across racial lines through sanctioned property and marriage arrangements.
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