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Sanskrit is one of the official of India and also a liturgical language of Jainism, Buddism and Sikhism. Sanskrit is seen in the pre classical form as vedic Sanskrit. The language since very long there is even help given to learn and understand Sanskrit. There has been manuscript written on palm leaf during the eleventh century. Actually Sanskrit was not thought as a specific language. Sanskrit was mainly taught to higher castes and when you could understand Sanskrit it was considered as a marker of social class. In Mauritius most of the government school have Hindi as language. The new Hindu generation in Mauritius does not speak so much Hindi anymore and are not really interested. Hindi actually comes from the ancestors who were brought as slaves to Mauritius to work in the sugar cane fields during slavery period. After slavery abolished a lot of the Indian stayed in Mauritius.
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