The cultural significance of Hindi in Mauritius

Barz, Richard

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Register levels of ethno-national purity: The ethnicization of language and community in Mauritius

Eisenlohr

2004

Lang. Soc.

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Language is involved in processes of group identification in that it provides a focus for explicit discourses of identity and constitutes a field of less overt practices for creating groupness. Drawing on examples from Mauritian television broadcasting, this study traces the ethnicization of Mauritian Bhojpuri as a "Hindu language" through the hierarchization and subsuming of linguistic practices under larger language labels with ethno-national significance. Purist forms of Mauritian Bhojpuri that are locally perceived as "intermediate" registers between Hindi and Bhojpuri are used to represent Hindi as a language spoken in Mauritius, and at the same time to link Mauritian Bhojpuri ideologically to Hindu identity. This blurring of language boundaries serves a Hindu nationalist agenda in a diasporic location by establishing new links between linguistic forms and ethno-national values. (Linguistic anthropology, nationalism, language ideology, language and community, multilingualism, Mauritius, Indian diaspora)*

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Register levels of ethno-national purity: The ethnicization of language and community in Mauritius

Eisenlohr

2004

Lang. Soc.

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Temporalities of Community: Ancestral Language, Pilgrimage, and Diasporic Belonging in Mauritius

Eisenlohr¹

2004

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Temporal indexicality is deeply involved in the production of imagined communities. This article shows how the cultivation of Hindi as an “ancestral language” among Hindus in Mauritius mediates between two different modes of temporality while shaping diasporic identities. Diasporic ideologies of ancestral language are further shown to articulate with the creation of sacred geographies in the context of an annual Hindu pilgrimage.

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Servan-Schreiber¹

2014

Indianité Et Créolité À L’île Maurice

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The cultural significance of Hindi in Mauritius

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Register levels of ethno-national purity: The ethnicization of language and community in Mauritius

Register levels of ethno-national purity: The ethnicization of language and community in Mauritius

Temporalities of Community: Ancestral Language, Pilgrimage, and Diasporic Belonging in Mauritius

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