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9780822394396
Series Statement:
Radical perspectives
Content:
Nature's jungle, empire's garden -- Borderlands, rice eaters, and tea growers -- Migrants in the garden : expanding the frontier -- Old lords and "improving" regimes -- Bringing progress, restoring culture -- Language and literature : framing identity -- Contesting publics : raced communities and gendered history
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822350323
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822350491
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Empire's garden Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press, 2011 ISBN 9780822350323
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822350327
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822350491
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822350491
Language:
English
Keywords:
Assam
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Kolonialismus
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Teeanbau
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Teehandel
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Geschichte
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