Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Aapravasi Ghat' has mentioned 'Island' in the following places:
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Building complex in Port Louis, on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius | WIKI |
The Immigration Depot (Hindi: xe0xa4x86xe0xa4xaaxe0xa5x8dxe0xa4xb0xe0xa4xb5xe0xa4xbexe0xa4xb8xe0xa5x80 xe0xa4x98xe0xa4xbexe0xa4x9f, Aapravasi Ghat) is a building complex located in Port Louis on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, the first British colony to receive indentured, or contracted, labour workforce from many countries. | WIKI |
[6] By the mid-18th century, sugar plantations had been developed on the Island of Mauritius, utilizing slave labour. | WIKI |
The first wave of new plantation workers were labourers from the Portuguese island of Madeira, freed African slaves from America and impoverished Chinese seeking greener pasture. | WIKI |
[16] In addition, the island's proximity to India was also an advantage. | WIKI |
A sugar plantation on the island of Rxc3xa9union, which also received a substantial number of indentured labourers,[6] in the late 1800s. | WIKI |
Modern painting by Mauritian artist Raouf Oderuth, portraying the first Indian labourers seeing the island from a ship in 1834 | WIKI |
Newly arrived Indian labourers in the Caribbean island of Trinidad. | WIKI |
[1] The Indian migrants that passed through the island have left a distinct mark on the Mauritian society. | WIKI |
[1][4] No other indentured migration has so definitely shaped the future of a nation as the movement of Indian workers to Mauritius, with the result of around half a million Indians settling on the island. | WIKI |
This Indian heritage, however, had been extant even before the indentured system began, with merchants from the subcontinent,[1] together with Chinese counterparts, settling on the island. | WIKI |
In 1806, when Mauritius was still under the French administration, official statistics showed that there were already 6,162 Indians living on the island, in the eastern suburb of Port Louis, known as Camp des Malabars. | WIKI |
They eventually took control of a substantial part of the agricultural economy, leading to the growth of rural villages and giving rise to a bourgeoisie that would continue to influence to island's post-colonial politics. | WIKI |
Beyond politics, the settlement of Indian migrants on the island resulted in a melting pot of culture, intermixing with African, Chinese, Creole, and European influences. | WIKI |
[4][5][6] The lake of Grand Bassin, also known as Ganga Talao, located in the center of the island has become an object of sacred pilgrimage by the Indo-Mauritians professing their Hindu faith. | WIKI |
The Depot was built in 1849 to receive indentured labourers from India, Eastern Africa, Madagascar, China and Southeast Asia to work on the islandxe2x80x99s sugar estates as part of the 'Great Experimentxe2x80x99. | UNESCO |