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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments 0 Note on Transliteration and Orthography 0 Introduction 1 1. Creole Island or Little India? The Politics of Language and Diaspora 0 2. An Indo-Mauritian World: "Ancestral Culture," Hindus, and Their Others 0 3. Social Semiotics of Language: Shifting Registers, Narrative, and Performance 0 4. Colonial Education, Ethnolinguistic Identifications, and the Origins of Ancestral Languages 0 5. Performing Purity: Television and Ethnolinguistic Recognition 6. Calibrations of Displacement: Diasporization, Ancestral Language, and Temporality 0 Conclusion: Time, Technology, and Language 0 Notes 000 References 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Anthropological linguistics -- Mauritius.
Hindus -- Mauritius -- Ethnic identity.
Hindus -- Diaspora.
Mauritius -- Ethnic relations.