Mauritius
SIR,—Nigel Fisher's article on Mauritius (Spectator, September 17) was quite fair and in line with what he publicly stated in Mauritius a few weeks ago. But he is inaccurate when he says that Britain im- ported from India indentured labour into Mauritius eighty Years ago. Indians came to Mauritius in the eighteenth century, but the bulk of the Indian in- dentured labour was imported into Mauritius in the last century after the abolition of slavery. The importers were the sugar magnates and it was the only way to save the sugar industry of Mauritius at that time.
The purpose of this letter is merely to correct a olearly unwitting distortion of Mauritian history 'and not to score a point over anyone. Mauritius, as it is today, is the result of the combined efforts of all Mauritians irrespective of the ethnic group to which they happen to belong.
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