Ethnicity, Community and the Census in Mauritius, 1830-1990

Abstract

The complex ethnic composition of the population of Mauritius has presented major problems of classification and recognition of distinct communities for successive census commissioners. Differing solutions were attempted as the population evolved through immigration and intermarriage. However, intervention to use the classification for political ends finally resulted in the abolition of the ethnic census tabulation altogether. The very problems of the census commissioners derived from the fact that throughout the 19th and 20th centuries the variously defined communities lived as an integrated society, notably in Port Louis, the capital, making segregation and separation impossible. -Author

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