Hinduism in Mauritius

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Hinduism came to Mauritius when Indians were brought as indentured labourers to French Mauritius and later, in much larger numbers, to British Mauritius' plantation fields and neighbouring islands in the Indian Ocean. These immigrants primarily came from what are now the Indian States of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha as well as from the Madhesh Province of Nepal. Hinduism is the largest religion in Mauritius, accounting for approximately 47.81% of the current population according to the 2022 census. They were c. 589,423 out of the c. 1,233,097 population as per the census. As such, Mauritius has the third largest percentage of Hindus in the world, after Nepal and India, and remains the only country in Africa where Hinduism forms a plurality of the population.

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