By C. Anderson
While the British took keep watch over of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius quickly after the abolition of the slave alternate, they have been confronted with a labour-hungry and most likely antagonistic Franco-Mauritian plantocracy. This publication explores the context during which Indian convicts have been transported to the island and placed to paintings development the infrastructure essential to gasoline the growth of the sugar undefined. Drawing on hitherto unexplored archival fabric, it's proven how convicts skilled transportation and built-in into the Mauritian social and fiscal cloth.
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7 years. Their age distribution also shows a wide spread, the youngest convict being 18 and the oldest 66. Bombay convicts were, however, generally younger than those from Bengal. 0 per cent). 102 Thus although Bombay convicts were generally younger than Bengal convicts, the Bombay Presidency did take the opportunity to unload some of its older prisoners. A large number of murderers were also sent, in direct defiance of Mauritian directives. The Mauritian authorities remained, above all, concerned with convicts' productive capacity.
25 The political economy of convict informing thus came into play in securing convictions, both against convicts and others. Informing became integral to the operation of the criminal law, ensuring a strengthening of the convict system as convicts themselves became incorporated within its political authority. 30 Some 200 more were sent to work in Port Louis after the town was partly destroyed by fire in 1816. Their labour was indispensable, as they cleared burnt-out buildings, rebuilt streets and pavements and replanted trees.
Their motivations for transporting convicts were partly fiscal: the expense of maintaining a large prison population. Of equal concern was the desire to dispose of serious criminals. 77 A series of riots broke out between 1815 and 1816 after prisoners destined for transportation refused to work, insisting it conferred privileges upon them. 78 The Superintendent of the Convict Department in Mauritius, Captain Francis Rossi, later wrote: I was in Bengal at the time the insurrection alluded to took place, and the danger appeared of so great a magnitude to Government, that the Brigade of European Troops under General, then Colonel, Keating, was sent from Fort William to the Jail at Allypore, to quell that Insurrection which they accomplished by firing from the tops of the walls amongst the Convicts in the Prison yard, by which many of them were killed and wounded .