Ameeth sookdeo bissoondoyal biography

To all those who took the liberty to Google up ' The life and times of Sookdeo Bissoondoyal ' and thus read the biography of Sookdeo written by Ramnath.
And Sookdeo Bissoondoyal before eventually joining the Independent.
As the title indicates, the thesis is concerned with the establishment and cultivation of modern standard Hindi (KhB.) in Mauritius.

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News on Sunday 902

BUSINESS

Moving data, not people STRAY ANIMALS

A lingering issue

ZINAIDA RAMJAN

Bejewelled sensuality

11 - 17 OCTOBER 2013 | N° 902 | 40 PAGES | RS 15 | WWW.DEFIMEDIA.INFO

THE ID CARD DEBATE

When the Opposition

SHOOTS ! f l e s it

The introduction of the new Identity Card system has sparked debates and even prompted a citizen, Dr Raja Madhewoo, to seek a Court injunction against the card Implementation process. Whilst most of the protests were initially carried out by social activists, the Opposition joined the bandwagon only recently, seemingly after public protests gained momentum. Until then, they remained more or less indifferent to the hue and cry surrounding the issue. Hon Paul Bérenger, now back as leader of the Opposition, at a press conference of the ‘Remake 2000’ on Saturday 5 October 2013, invited the public to refrain from applying for the new card until the main case is entered at the Supreme Court. On his side, Hon Pravind Jugnauth, Leader of the MSM, also entered a Court case against the new card.

RAJ AUCKLOO

HRDC advocates a business

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Examining Narratives of Indentured labour in Mauritian post-colonial literary texts in the early period of independence: Power and Agency, Slave and Labour continuum and New Social Order.

International Conference on Indenture Labour Route Project, November 03-05, 2014, MGI, Réduit. Examining Narratives of Indentured labour in Mauritian post-colonial literary texts in the early period of independence: Power and Agency, Slave and Labour continuum and New Social Order. (Jimmy Harmon) Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine narratives of indentured labour in the period of Indian immigration and their descendants before the independence of Mauritius. I analyse these narratives in the writings of postcolonial Mauritian writers. I have selected three texts, one published in the late 1960s and two in 1970s. My focus is on three texts. Two texts are from contemporary writer D. Napal with his novelette The Years of Tribulation (1975) and his play La ligue des ancêtres trespassés (1978). Napal’s short story is set against the background of the centennial celebration (1835-1925) of

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Divided loyalties and contested identities: Citizenship in colonial Mauritius

Introduction e m m A H u n t e r

A f r I C A , I t I s O f t e n s A I d , I s s u f f e r I n g f r O m A C r I s I s O f

citizenship. 1 Since the return of multiparty politics, new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have led to the denial of rights and privileges to those designated as "strangers." 2 in a continent where movement has always been the norm, designating particular groups as outsiders and seeking to exclude them from political rights on that basis has proved a tempting political tactic. 3 At the same time, even those who enjoy the legal status of citizenship and the political rights that flow from it face difficulties in approaching the state as active citizens engaged in ruling themselves. 4 At the heart of contemporary debates over citizenship in Africa lie dynamic exchanges between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience. yet studies of citizenship in Africa have often tended to foreshorte