This research is a contribution to the study of diasporic Hinduism. It draws on historical documentation and ethnographic fieldwork, focusing on the evolution of the cult of deity Mardévirin/Maduraivīraṉ, between South India where it originates and Mauritius Island, one of nineteenth-century plantation societies where it was transplanted following indenture. My research is an attempt to write a cultural history around the cult of Mardévirin. I first locate the latter's origins in precolonial South India, in order to map out important themes - such as political symbolism, moral ambiguity and antinomian religiosity - that are mirrored and subverted on Mauritius Island. In the second part of the thesis, I argue that the colonial period was fer...
Dans cette thèse nous avons abordé les tradipratiques à l'île Maurice et nous avons tenté de délimit...
Modern Mauritius was born in the early eighteenth century when a group of Frenchcolonists named it Î...
Mauritius has been an independent nation since 1968. It was founded on the history and structures of...
International audienceMost of the Mauritian Tamils worship the gods of the Hindu pantheon but parado...
International audienceMost of the Mauritian Tamils worship the gods of the Hindu pantheon but parado...
International audienceMost of the Mauritian Tamils worship the gods of the Hindu pantheon but parado...
Most of the Mauritian Tamils worship the gods of the Hindu pantheon but paradoxically they do not ca...
La majorité des Mauriciens d’origine tamoule vouent leur culte à des divinités du panthéon hindou ma...
La majorité des Mauriciens d’origine tamoule vouent leur culte à des divinités du panthéon hindou ma...
Slavery and Indenture are central to understanding the Mauritian past. The forced and free labor dia...
SLAVERY AND INDENTURE ARE central to understanding the Mauritian past. The forced and free labor dia...
Mauritian Muslims have undergone a long process of religious standardization and sectarian segmentat...
In this PhD thesis, the traditional medicinal practices were considered within the context of Maurit...
In this PhD thesis, the traditional medicinal practices were considered within the context of Maurit...
In this PhD thesis, the traditional medicinal practices were considered within the context of Maurit...
Dans cette thèse nous avons abordé les tradipratiques à l'île Maurice et nous avons tenté de délimit...
Modern Mauritius was born in the early eighteenth century when a group of Frenchcolonists named it Î...
Mauritius has been an independent nation since 1968. It was founded on the history and structures of...
International audienceMost of the Mauritian Tamils worship the gods of the Hindu pantheon but parado...
International audienceMost of the Mauritian Tamils worship the gods of the Hindu pantheon but parado...
International audienceMost of the Mauritian Tamils worship the gods of the Hindu pantheon but parado...
Most of the Mauritian Tamils worship the gods of the Hindu pantheon but paradoxically they do not ca...
La majorité des Mauriciens d’origine tamoule vouent leur culte à des divinités du panthéon hindou ma...
La majorité des Mauriciens d’origine tamoule vouent leur culte à des divinités du panthéon hindou ma...
Slavery and Indenture are central to understanding the Mauritian past. The forced and free labor dia...
SLAVERY AND INDENTURE ARE central to understanding the Mauritian past. The forced and free labor dia...
Mauritian Muslims have undergone a long process of religious standardization and sectarian segmentat...
In this PhD thesis, the traditional medicinal practices were considered within the context of Maurit...
In this PhD thesis, the traditional medicinal practices were considered within the context of Maurit...
In this PhD thesis, the traditional medicinal practices were considered within the context of Maurit...
Dans cette thèse nous avons abordé les tradipratiques à l'île Maurice et nous avons tenté de délimit...
Modern Mauritius was born in the early eighteenth century when a group of Frenchcolonists named it Î...
Mauritius has been an independent nation since 1968. It was founded on the history and structures of...