Mauritius Sketchbook

Product DescriptionEver since the 18th century, Mauritius has been enriched by inflows of people from Europe, Africa, India and China. The result, on the island today, is a harmonious mix of cultural and religious traditions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism).Mauritius Sketchbook

Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

Product DescriptionThe island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. Throughout the 1700s, ships brought men and women from France to build the colonial population and from Africa and India as slaves. In Creating the Creole Island, the distinguished historian Megan Vaughan traces the complex and contradictory social relations that developed on Mauritius under French colonial rule, paying particular attention to questions of subjectivity and agency.Combining archival research with an engaging literary style, Vaughan juxtaposes extensive analysis of court records with examinations of the logs of slave ships and of colonial correspondence and travel accounts. The result is a close reading of life on the island, power relations, colonialism, and the process of cultural creolization. Vaughan brings to light complexities of language, sexuality, and reproduction as well as the impact of the French Revolution. Illuminating a crucial period in the history of Mauritius, Creating the Creole Island is a major contribution to the historiography of slavery, colonialism, and creolization across the Indian Ocean.Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

Types of vegetarians (behaviour standpoint)

IS NON-VEGETARIAN FOOD PERMITTED OR PROHIBITED FOR A HUMAN BEING? Between Dr. Zakir Naik and Mr. Rashmibhai Zaveri (Patkar Hall, Mumbai, India, 9th May, 1999) I would like to state a quotation by Dr. William T. Jarves. Dr. William T. Jarves, he is the advisor to the 'American Council of Science and Health' 'ACSH', and he is also the 'Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine' in the Lomalinda University, and he is also the founder and the President of the 'National Council Against Health Frauds', and he is the co-editor of the book 'The Health Robbers - a closer look at Ouakery in America' - Most of the quotations he gives... from America. And according to him, he classifies 'Vegetarian' based on the behavior's stand point, into two categories... 'Pragmatic Vegetarian' and 'Ideological Vegetarian'. 'A Pragmatic Vegetarian' chooses his diet on objective health reasons - He is more reasonable in his approach, rather than emotional. 'The Ideological Vegetarian' on a other hand, he chooses his diet based on a principle, which is based on ideology - he is more emotional, rather than reasonable. And Dr. William T. Jarves says... 'One can spot an Ideological Vegetarian, by his exaggeration of the benefits of Vegetarianism, and you could see that in the talk which preceded my talk... exaggeration of benefits of Vegetarianism. And the lack of skepticism, and the over looking of the fact that extreme Vegetarianism, can lead to potential health risk'. He says that...'The ...