Port Louis Diversity Slide Show



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These various religious organizations include the Sanatan Dharma Temples Federation, an organization that attempts to unify the leadership and temple administration. This group of Hindus, (those of North Indian descent, Hindi-speaking, and not members of the reform movement of the Arya Samaj), became know through the island as the Sanatanists coming from the term Sanatana Dharma, indicating their adherence to the traditional and more orthodox practices of North Indian Hinduism.



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In 1910, a Hindu reform movement called the Arya Samaj was established in Mauritius, attracting large numbers of Hindi-speaking devotees into the movement and away from their more traditional forms of rituals and temple worship. Partly in response to the work of Christian missionaries and to the popularity of the Arya Samaj movement, some leaders among the Hindu priests felt their religious practices and traditions were threatened in their role as the predominant form of religious culture among the Hindi-speaking Hindus of Mauritius so they founded various religious organizations.