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Aapravasi Ghat
The Immigration Depot ((ヒンディー語:आप्रवासी घाट ''Aapravasi Ghat'')) is a building complex located in Port Louis on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, 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 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=High Level Committee on Indian Diaspora )〕 In Mauritius alone, 68 percent of the current total population is of Indian ancestry. 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 means 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.〔 The Immigration Depot's role in social history was recognized by UNESCO when it was declared a World Heritage Site in 2006. The site is under the management of the Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund. Conservation efforts are underway to restore the fragile buildings back to their 1860s state.〔
==Name==
The name Aapravasi Ghat, which has been in use since 1987, is a direct Hindi translation of "Immigration Depot".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = World Heritage Center )〕 Aapravasi is the Hindi word for "immigrant", while ghat literally means "interface"—factually reflecting the structure's position between the land and sea, and symbolically marking a transition between the old life and the new for the arriving indentured immigrants.〔 Alluding to its function as a pit stop to prospective plantation workers, alternatively called coolies, the Immigration Depot has also been known by an older name, the 'Coolie Ghat'.
The prominent use of the Hindi language in Mauritian naming conventions is based on social and ethnic demographics; over half the national population is of Indian ancestry,〔 a direct result of the Indian labor diaspora that passed through the Immigration Depot.
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