Empire's Garden : Assam and the Making of India / Jayeeta Sharma.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Radical perspectives | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (343 pages): illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822394396
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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