TY - BOOK AU - Sharma,Jayeeta ED - Project Muse. TI - Empire's Garden : : Assam and the Making of India / T2 - Radical perspectives SN - 9780822394396 PY - 2011/// CY - Durham [N.C.] PB - Duke University Press KW - Tea trade KW - India KW - Assam KW - History KW - nli KW - British KW - 19th century KW - Pflanzenbau KW - idszbz KW - Tee KW - Sozialer Wandel KW - Migration KW - Kulturelle Identität KW - South Asia KW - hilcc KW - History & Archaeology KW - Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East KW - Kolonialismus KW - gnd KW - Teehandel KW - Teeanbau KW - Ahom KW - Einwanderung KW - fast KW - HISTORY KW - Asia KW - India & South Asia KW - bisacsh KW - The KW - Commerce KW - Inde KW - Histoire KW - Britanniques KW - 19e siecle KW - Assam (India) KW - Assam (Inde) KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64093/ ER -