Another bugbear exercising the minds of knowledgeable observers was that the country was heading for a monumental blow-up. Surely, half a million people of diverse origin, − African, Asian, European, − practising many religions and speaking a Babel of languages, could not survive on this crowded, impoverished island. They were bound to be at each other’s throat as soon as the colonial overlord left.
BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  Mauritius had indeed come down in the world.