Little India: diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius/

Eisenlohr, Patrick

Little India: diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius/ Patrick Eisenlohr - Berkeley : University Of California Press, 2006. - xv,328p. ; 24cm.

Creole island or little India? :
the politics of language and diaspora -- An Indo-Mauritian world :
"ancestral culture," Hindus, and their others -- Social semiotics of language :
shifting registers, narrative, and performance -- Colonial education, ethnolinguistic identifications, and the origins of ancestral languages -- Performing purity :
television and ethnolinguistic recognition -- Calibrations of displacement :
diasporization, ancestral language, and temporality

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Hindus -- Mauritius -- Ethnic identity.
Hindu diaspora.
Anthropological linguistics -- Mauritius.

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