ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the pattern of spatial organisation that has occurred in the context of sugar production, as it relates to the fragmentation that took place, prior to the birth and development of villages. “Around the sugar business of the mills an Indian society based on the ideology of the action Dharma where the expected merits in the beyond are to the measure of the actions undertaken from the living, moral principle generating a duty of reciprocity.” From mills to kalimais, temples, a long and even process of social and economic differentiation can be seen, while internal solidarity between large and small plantations based on the educational values of the Hindu religion (karma) played a certain role in the development of Indian society (for example, cooperatives and trade unions since 1930). Each village in the district of Moka-Flacq is a historical witness of the differentiated forms of social differentiation and segmentation that evolved simultaneously.
