Empire's Garden Assam and the Making of India
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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| Formato: | Electrónico |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press
2011.
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| Colección: | OAPEN Library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37605355*spi |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780822350323 9780822394396 |
