Aapravasi Ghat: Port Louis, Mauritius, Indian Ocean, Colony, Indentured servant, Non- resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin, Indo- Mauritian, ... Culture of Mauritius, World Heritage Site - Tapa blanda

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Immigration Depot is a building complex located in Port Louis, on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, which was the first British colony to receive indentured, or contracted, labor workforce from India. From 1849 to 1923, half a million Indian indentured labourers passed through the Immigration Depot, to be eventually transported to plantations throughout the British Empire. The large-scale migration of the laborers left an indelible mark on the societies of many former British colonies, with Indians constituting a substantial proportion of their national populations. In Mauritius alone, 68 percent of the current total population has Indian forebearers. The Immigration Depot has thus become an important reference point in the history and cultural identity of Mauritius. Unchecked infrastructural development in the mid-20th century however meant that only the partial remains of three stone buildings from the entire complex have survived. These are now protected as a national monument, under the Mauritian national heritage legislation.