2008 elections, the Election Commission closed its rolls in August 2008 without enrolling them. Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, Myanmar, South Africa and Seychelles A large number of people from the Bhojpuri speaking regions of Bihar Province of British India travelled to various parts of the world in the 19th century to serve as indentured labours on sugarcane, cocoa, rice, and rubber plantations in the Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, Myanmar, Seychelles and Natal, South Africa. A majority of Indo-Mauritians are Bihari Mauritians, so are a proportion of Indo-Seychellois (second largest, since South Indians form a majority of the country's ethnic Indians) as well as a portion of Indian South Africans (fourth largest subgroup in the country after Gujaratis, Tamils and Telugus). Most of the Mauritian Prime Ministers or Presidents were Indo-Mauritians of Bihari descent. Many Indo-Caribbeans are of Bhojpuri descent or hail from the Awadh region in Uttar Pradesh. References Indian diaspora