Sharma, Jayeeta.

Empire's Garden : Assam and the Making of India / Jayeeta Sharma. - 1 online resource (343 pages): illustrations, maps - Radical perspectives . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

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A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape.

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Tea trade--History.--India--Assam
British--History--India--Assam--19th century.
Pflanzenbau.
Tee.
Sozialer Wandel.
Migration.
Kulturelle Identität.
South Asia.
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.
Kolonialismus
Teehandel
Teeanbau
Sozialer Wandel
Ahom
Einwanderung
Kulturelle Identität
Tea trade.
British.
HISTORY--India & South Asia.--Asia
The--Commerce--Histoire.--Inde--Assam
Britanniques--Histoire--Inde--Assam--19e siecle.
Tea trade--History.--India--Assam
British--History--India--Assam--19th century.


Assam (India)--History.
Assam.
Assam
India--Assam.
Assam (Inde)--Histoire.
Assam (India)--History.


History.
Electronic books.