Companion Reading in the Corpus

The Improbable Equilibrium is a narrative synthesis. It carries no inline citations by design; instead, every chapter is traceable here to the specific analytical documents in the Mauritius corpus that it draws upon. Those documents hold the full primary-source citations, the contested-record detail, and — as the verification campaign proceeds — their fact-check status. Read them for the evidence behind the story.

On verification. As of this edition, the source documents are largely [DRAFT] and carry open [TBD-VERIFY] tags. This book inherits those hedges rather than resolving them. Fact-check audits, when filed, live under mauritius/docs/factcheck/.

Chapter-by-chapter sources

Prologue — The Island That Should Not Have Worked

• MU-A-01: Independence and the Founding Era (1968–1982)
• MU-C-01: Democratic Alternation and the 2024 Landslide

Chapter 1 — Founding the Plural Republic

• MU-A-01: Independence and the Founding Era (1968–1982)
• MU-C-01: Democratic Alternation and the 2024 Landslide

Chapter 2 — The Alternation Machine

• MU-C-01: Democratic Alternation and the 2024 Landslide
• MU-A-01: Independence and the Founding Era (1968–1982)

Chapter 3 — The Jugnauth Ascendancy and Its Unravelling

• MU-D-01: The Pravind Jugnauth Premiership (2017–2024)
• MU-E-01: The 2024 Election, the Alliance du Changement, and Chagos

Chapter 4 — The Landslide and the Voice in the Recordings

• MU-E-01: The 2024 Election, the Alliance du Changement, and Chagos
• MU-D-01: The Pravind Jugnauth Premiership (2017–2024)
• MU-C-01: Democratic Alternation and the 2024 Landslide

Chapter 5 — The Conduit Island

• MU-G-02: The Offshore Financial Centre — IBC, DTAA, and FATF (1992–2024)

Chapter 6 — Chagos: The Long Way Back to the Map

• MU-E-03: The 22 May 2025 Diego Garcia Treaty
• MU-E-01: The 2024 Election, the Alliance du Changement, and Chagos
• MU-A-01: Independence and the Founding Era (1968–1982)

Epilogue — Year One of the Reset

• MU-E-02: The Ramgoolam Government, Year One — Fiscal Audit, FCC, and Chagos

The source canon

The scholarly and documentary foundation for the whole book is catalogued in:

• MU-R-01: Mauritius Governance Books Canon — the major histories, official records, and academic monographs (among them Selvon's history of Mauritius, Bowman, Eriksen on plural society, Bräutigam and Diolle on the developmental state, and the Chagos literature of Vine and Sands) that ground every chapter above.

Planned companions (not yet written)

Two contested-record documents are planned in the Mauritius taxonomy but not yet written; when they exist, they will deepen the named-attribution treatment this book gives to two questions:

• MU-J-01: Chagos — the Mauritian and UK accounts side by side.
• MU-J-02: The 2022–2024 phone-tap scandal — three accounts.

Until then, Chapters 4 and 6 source those debates from the E-block documents above.