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Article: The disintegration of caste and changing concepts of Indian ethnic identity in Mauritius.
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- Ethnology
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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Most scholars (Mayer 1967; Benedict 1961; Jayawardena 1971) discussing the issue of caste among overseas Indians observe that the caste system as it functions in village India was never successfully established overseas. There castes do not form important social units, and intercaste relations are unimportant. One reason given for this is that the economic and political systems in the host societies where indentured Indian laborers were introduced had conditions that were not conducive to the maintenance of caste. The indenture pattern of emigration tended to weaken the social restrictions governed by caste. Caste was not an important principle of social organization in ...
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