The Reunion Island delegation in Puducherry University

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Well past the 150 anniversary of the Aurélie steamship leaving these shores with the first job-seeking migrants for French archipelagos on the Indian Ocean, Reunion Island and Puducherry are currently keen on discovering their ancestral history, improve tourism facilities and make cultural exchanges easy for the tourists. From the Reunion Island, a 30-member team on Monday was in the city of Puducherry for the dedication ceremony of a restored memory stele put in the honour of their ancestors on the Pondicherry University campus area and in reminiscence of Indian immigrants who left the country for Réunion Islands, other overseas territories in France and British colonies in 200 years back. In January 2010, the ‘Stele de Memoire’ was installed as part of the project ‘Route of Slavery and Indenture’.

It was later authorized by the UNESCO and the GOPIO Reunion, the HISTORUN Association, and Réunion Region, under the chairmanship of late Sudel Fuma, and Pondicherry University.

Of the installation ceremony of the memory stele, the 10th anniversary was planned to be hosted in January 2020. However, the ceremony had to be postponed because of the pandemic situation. The revamped memorial was inaugurated in the University’s gardens of the cultural complex. It was inaugurated in the presence of 300 invitees, comprising the team from Reunion Island and legislative body of French overseas territories. Later, the team met with the Tourism Minister, Mr. K. Lakshminarayanan.

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