Empire's Garden
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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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-295932025-07-30T14:54:59Z 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-10 03:00:32 2020-04-01T12:50:04Z 2011-07-13 book 648153 OCN: 753324139 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30264 9780822394396 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29593 eng Radical Perspectives open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30264/1/648153.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30264/1/648153.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30264/1/648153.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30264/1/648153.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822394396 10.1215/9780822394396 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822394396 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Durham, NC 100992 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection open access |
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