Nationalisme, décolonisation et consociation à l'île Maurice: l'émergence d'un Mauricianisme stratégique (1945–1967)

Abstract

The decolonization period in Mauritius (1947–1968) gave rise to intense debates around the project of a Mauritian nation, named “Mauritianism”. This paper aims to analyse the reasons why Mauritianism remained an ambiguous concept. This “strategic Mauritianism” was framed within the consociational negociations held during that period, between the former dominant minority of the Franco-Mauritians, who championed an assimilationist form of nation, and the emerging dominant majority, the Hindus, who favoured an ethnicized “revivalist” conception of the nation.