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Mauritius is a multicultural, multilingual, and multi-ethnic country, based on a mixture of different types of population. In the present condition, people of Indian origin predominantly reside there. As per the World Factbook 2020, the population of Mauritius is 1379365, scattered in many ethnic groups like Indo-Mauritian, Creole, Sino-Mauritian, and Franco-Mauritian. Indian indentured labourers (migrants) carried their socio-cultural values and traditions in Mauritius. Indians from various regions use languages in Mauritius, such as Bhojpuri, Hindi, Gujarati, Kutchi, Mandarin, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu in connection to their ethnicity and religion. Thus, the mainstream still collaborates their historical and cultural identity with their language. Hence, the history of Mauritius is mainly affected by the Indian indentured labourers in several ways. During the indentured migration, the Indians carried their Indian identity with them. However, as per Indian Hindu tradition, the person who crosses the sea will lose their identity. Nevertheless, indentured labourers started to preserve their Indian identity. During the indentured period, people having different culture and social status were living together in one village and working together in sugar cane fields. Therefore, it can be said that there were no cultural or social boundaries the existed among them. At present, Indian culture is the dominant culture in Mauritius. There are the majority of Indian origin people, that�s why Indian people called to Mauritius as �Chhota Bharat�. This paper discusses the importance of Indian culture in Mauritius. Indian people migrated to Mauritius during the colonial period. How did they preserve Indian culture there? What was the situation of Indian languages in Mauritius? It also discusses the Indian food and festivals in Mauritius. Many Indian festivals are celebrated in Mauritius.