Madagascar exclusion note — Karana are Gujarati Muslim, not Tamil

Madagascar is explicitly EXCLUDED from the eighteen Ecumene nodes. The South Asian community in Madagascar — the Karana — is Gujarati-speaking and predominantly Sunni / Khoja / Bohra Muslim, with origins in Kutch and Surat via the Mozambique Channel trade, NOT a Tamil indenture or Kangani cohort. UNHCR statelessness reports and the Tilburg Law Review 2014 article on Karana statelessness are the standing anchors. Including Madagascar as a 'Tamil node' would be ethnographically false and would replicate the colonial habit of collapsing all South Asians into one category. The Ecumene refuses that collapse. If a reader expects to see Madagascar on the map, this is why it is not there.