![]() Yadhav Deerpaul is a Research Assistant at the Road Safety Observatory, University of Mauritius. Their ancestors migrated in the nineteenth century to work in the sugar plantations but also to construct the railways. The bilateral relationship was catalyzed by the presence of Indian descendants in the island. ![]() The past and the present overlapped not only through the alignment but also as India started playing an intricate role in the construction processes. In contemporary times, there were several protests as peoples and parks had to be displaced. In the 1860s, the routinised construction processes circulating from India clashed with the physiocratic ideologies present since the French colonization of the island. The colonial world is not analyzed as a trove of lessons from the past but rather as a gauge to question notions of progress. By exploring the tensions in colonial and postcolonial Mauritius through the actor-network theory, the paper suggests that a 'usable past' on mobility and immobility can be unraveled. The government decided in 2016 that a light rail transit network would be built on roughly the alignment as the previous railways. But the railways were dismantled in the 1960s due to the growing popularity of motor vehicles. ![]() The outbreak of malaria from the city of Port Louis eventually led to the spread of the colored and white population to these areas. But they also transported passengers and along the way made the inland Central Plateau accessible. Railways were constructed in the extractive sugar economy of British Mauritius in the 1860s to serve the transportation needs of the Franco-Mauritian sugar mills' owners. ![]() When Wagons Displaced Families and Trees in Colonial and Postcolonial Mauritius Yadhav Deerpaul ![]()
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