UPPSC 2013 General Studies I Solved Paper

(b) President of India was the special guest at the ${45}^{\mathit{t}\mathit{h}}$ Independence Day function of Mauritius on March 12, 2013.Mauritius is a small, multi-cultural island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. Mauritius was $1^{\mathit{s}\mathit{t}}$ settled in 1638 and later in 1715 captured by French. Late rover taken by British and on ${12}^{\mathit{t}\mathit{h}}$ March 1968, Mauritius became independent.