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In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local...
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oapen-20.500.12657-302642021-11-09T07:55:18Z Empire's Garden Sharma, Jayeeta History Ahom kingdom Assam Assamese language Bengal Bengali language India Kolkata Opium Tea In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. In the twentieth century these migrants were joined by others who came voluntarily to seek their livelihoods. In Empire’s Garden, Jayeeta Sharma explains how the settlement of more than one million migrants in Assam irrevocably changed the region’s social landscape. She argues that the racialized construction of the tea laborer catalyzed a process by which Assam’s gentry sought to insert their homeland into an imagined Indo-Aryan community and a modern Indian political space. 2018-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-10 03:00:32 2020-04-01T12:50:04Z 2020-04-01T12:50:04Z 2011-07-13 book 648153 OCN: 753324139 9780822394396 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30264 eng Radical Perspectives application/pdf n/a 648153.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822394396 100992 10.1215/9780822394396 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822394396 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham, NC 100992 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. In the twentieth century these migrants were joined by others who came voluntarily to seek their livelihoods. In Empire’s Garden, Jayeeta Sharma explains how the settlement of more than one million migrants in Assam irrevocably changed the region’s social landscape. She argues that the racialized construction of the tea laborer catalyzed a process by which Assam’s gentry sought to insert their homeland into an imagined Indo-Aryan community and a modern Indian political space. |
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