Empire's Garden

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350491
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Empire's Garden by : Jayeeta Sharma

Download or read book Empire's Garden written by Jayeeta Sharma and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

One Hundred Years of Servitude

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ISBN 13 : 9789382381433
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis One Hundred Years of Servitude by : Rana Partap Behal

Download or read book One Hundred Years of Servitude written by Rana Partap Behal and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a hundred-year history of tea plantations in the Assam (Brahmaputra) Valley during British colonial rule in India. It explores a world where more than two million migrant laborers worked under conditions of indentured servitude in the plantations, producing tea for an increasingly profitable global market. Behal traces the genesis and early development of the tea industry; the links between the colonial state and private British capital in fostering plantations in Assam; the nature of the 'tea mania,' and its consequences, which led to the emergence of the indenture labor system in Assam's tea gardens. The book describes process of labor mobilization and the nature of labor relations in the tea plantations. It deals with the operational aspects of labor recruitment, which involved the transportation and employment of migrant laborers, from the 1860s until the the indenture system was formally dismantled. It focuses on the power structure that ruled over the organization of production and labor relations within the plantations. This power structure operated at two levels: around the Indian Tea Association, the apex body of the tea industry, and the tea planters' coercive authority. The book examines the role of the colonial state and provides statistics on production, while also telling the story of everyday labor life in the tea gardens, and of the resistance to the oppressive regime by 'coolie' laborers who had been coerced into generational servitude. It analyses the forms of their protests, and raises the question whether the transformation of these migrant agrarian communities working in conditions of unfree labor was proletarian in nature.

Tea in Assam

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Tea in Assam by : Samuel Baildon

Download or read book Tea in Assam written by Samuel Baildon and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coolies of Capitalism

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110461285
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Coolies of Capitalism by : Nitin Varma

Download or read book Coolies of Capitalism written by Nitin Varma and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Coolie” is a generic category for the “unskilled” manual labour. The offering of services for hire had various pre-colonial lineages. In the nineteenth century there was an attempt to recast the term in discursive constructions and material practices for “mobilized-immobilized” labour. Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). It was portrayed as a stage in a promised transition. The tea plantations of Assam, like many other tropical plantations in South Asia, were inaugurated and formalized during this period. They were initially worked by the locals. In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were unquestioningly designated “coolies” in the historical literature. Qualifying this framework of transition (local to coolie labour) and introduction (of coolie labour), this study makes a case for the “production” of coolie labour in the history of the colonial-capitalist plantations in Assam. The intention of the research is not to suggest an unfettered agency of colonial-capitalism in defining and “producing” coolies, with an emphasis on the attendant contingencies, negotiations, contestations and crises. The study intervenes in the narratives of an abrupt appearance of the archetypical coolie of the tea gardens (i.e., imported and indentured) and situates this archetype’s emergence, sustenance and shifts in the context of material and discursive processes.

Unfolding Crisis in Assam's Tea Plantations

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317809335
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Unfolding Crisis in Assam's Tea Plantations by : Deepak K. Mishra

Download or read book Unfolding Crisis in Assam's Tea Plantations written by Deepak K. Mishra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Indian economy integrates into global circuits of production, exchange and accumulation, the burdens of adjustment are shared unequally by different sectors, classes and regions. This study unravels the livelihood strategies and living conditions of labour in the tea gardens of Assam. The tea sector has been undergoing a crisis since the 1990s, with stagnant production, decline in exports, and closures of many tea gardens leading to large-scale retrenchments in the labour force. Based on a detailed analysis of secondary data and primary field research, the study examines the extent, types and implications of inter-generational occupational mobility (or immobility) among tea garden labourers in Assam. In the process, it reflects on how even a sector that had brought capital and labour from outside and contributed significantly to the country’s export earnings failed to create dynamic growth linkages within the local economy. The experience of the labour force in the Assam tea sector, the authors argue, is important for making sense not only of the development dynamics of the region, but of the contradictory ways in which forces of globalisation and neo-liberal reforms have been reshaping the worlds of labourers in the margins. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of labour studies, development studies, management studies, and studies of north-east India, as well as to policy-makers and those in the tea industry.

A Tea Planter's Life in Assam

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis A Tea Planter's Life in Assam by : George M. Barker

Download or read book A Tea Planter's Life in Assam written by George M. Barker and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tea Industry in India

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
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Book Synopsis The Tea Industry in India by : Samuel Baildon

Download or read book The Tea Industry in India written by Samuel Baildon and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tea Industry of Assam

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Book Synopsis The Tea Industry of Assam by : Pradīpa Baruwā

Download or read book The Tea Industry of Assam written by Pradīpa Baruwā and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period, 1823-2006.

Tea Environments and Plantation Culture

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108610153
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Tea Environments and Plantation Culture by : Arnab Dey

Download or read book Tea Environments and Plantation Culture written by Arnab Dey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal, environmental, and agro-economic aspects of tea production illuminate covert, expedient, and often illegal administrative and commercial dealings that had an immediate and long-term human and environmental impact on the region. Critiquing this imperial commodity's advertised mandate of agrarian modernization in colonial India, Dey points to numerous tea pests, disease ecologies, felled forests, harsh working conditions, wage manipulation, and political resistance as examples of tea's unseemly legacy in the subcontinent. Dey draws together the plant and the plantation in highlighting the ironies of the tea economy and its consequences for the agrarian history of eastern India.

The Tea-Planter's Daughter

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448208424
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tea-Planter's Daughter by : Sara Banerji

Download or read book The Tea-Planter's Daughter written by Sara Banerji and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today is Julia Clockhouse's twenty-fifth birthday. Her long-suffering Hindu servants are frantically trying to organise a party for her, but it's hard to do so amid the havoc wreaked by her wild spirit. They think she is possessed. Daughters of colonial tea-planters shouldn't have souls that escape their bodies, move objects with their minds, hear tongueless yogis speak. Julia Clockhouse does. As the day passes and the chaos mounts in the kitchen, Julia listens desperately for the return of her husband. Ben may have married her on the orders of her domineering father, but he had come to love her; together they had found the happiness they missed in childhood. But by the time the party guests are tumbling in from the rising fury of the monsoon Ben has still not come. Sara Banerji narrates the events of an extraordinary birthday with deft humour and haunting eloquence, weaving into Julia's story a picture of an isolated tea-plantation and all those who live there. The Tea-Planter's Daughter is a captivating flight of the imagination firmly rooted in the reality of the South Indian hills.

Tea, Love and War

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Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780880898
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Tea, Love and War by : Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Honorary Consultant and Senior Clinical Lecturer David Mitchell

Download or read book Tea, Love and War written by Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Honorary Consultant and Senior Clinical Lecturer David Mitchell and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The range of the book: from wartime England to colonial Assam; from sapper training in India to jungle warfare in Malaya – Tea, Love and War tells the unique true story of the child of an exploited village woman gaining recognition and acceptance in suburban England. It is split into three parts: Stuart and Mary’s story, David’s story, and Ann’s story.Stuart, working on a tea estate in the jungles of Assam, fathers a child by a teenage native woman. Stuart’s letters to his family in pre-war England vividly describe his life as a planter in colonial India but conceal his secret love life. When war breaks out, Stuart joins the Indian army, trains as a sapper and is posted to Malaya, blowing bridges in the desperate rearguard action against the Japanese invasion. Back in wartime England, his sister Mary marries Stuart’s best friend, Arthur, who decides to train as an army officer. Mary, now a young mother pregnant with her second child, tells of the year’s delay in hearing news of her brother’s death at the fall of Singapore. Before the child is born, she learns that Arthur has been killed in action in Italy. The story switches to a jungle village in Assam where a small Anglo-Indian child named Ann fights her way through poverty and discrimination, always seeking the identity of her father and his family.Tea, Love and War is a gripping true story, narrated by Mary through her son David. “Much of the text is taken from the many exercise books that she filled with her memories, and whilst my investigations have expanded and updated her story, the history of the relevant elements of the Second World War, the Blitz and public perception of the Malayan campaign leading to the fall of Singapore are more eloquently seen from her individual viewpoint.” The book will appeal to fans of autobiographies, history and social history – Anglo-Indian culture and exploitation of women in India are key themes in the text – and has been inspired by Wild Swans.

Tea

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Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Tea by : David Crole

Download or read book Tea written by David Crole and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tea Plantation Workers of Assam and the Indian National Movement, 1921-1947

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ISBN 13 : 9789384082628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (826 download)

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Book Synopsis Tea Plantation Workers of Assam and the Indian National Movement, 1921-1947 by : Bikash Nath

Download or read book Tea Plantation Workers of Assam and the Indian National Movement, 1921-1947 written by Bikash Nath and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tea Plantation Workers of Assam and the Indian National Movement, 1921-1947 studies the various phases of workers' politics in the tea plantations of Assam and deliberates upon the role of nationalist leaders in moulding the fate of these workers. The struggles of the tea plantation workers were a manifestation of the strength of their protests against the varied forms of exploitations of the tea planters. Their struggle occurred at the time of the formation of the indigenous bourgeoisie and continued despite the nationalist leadership not providing sufficient support to them. There remained a deep incongruity between the interests of the workers and the interests of the nationalist leadership which largely determined the fate of the material conditions of the labourers in deeper aspects.

Green Gold

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448116201
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis Green Gold by : Alan Macfarlane

Download or read book Green Gold written by Alan Macfarlane and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drink. Tens of billions of cups are drunk every day. How and why has tea conquered the world? Tea was the first global product. It altered life-styles, religions, etiquette and aesthetics. It raised nations and shattered empires. Economies were changed out of all recognition. Diseases were thwarted by the magical drink and cities founded on it. The industrial revolution was fuelled by tea, sealing the fate of the modern world. Green Gold is a remarkable detective story of how an East Himalayan camellia bush became the world's favourite drink. Discover how the tea plant came to be transplanted onto every continent and relive the stories of the men and women whose lives were transformed out of all recognition through contact with the deceptively innocuous green leaf.

Tea in Assam

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Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781294680765
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Tea in Assam by : Samuel Baildon

Download or read book Tea in Assam written by Samuel Baildon and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02-22 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Tea In Assam: A Pamphlet On The Origin, Culture, And Manufacture Of Tea In Assam Samuel Baildon W. Newman & Co., 1877 Cooking; Beverages; Coffee & Tea; Agriculture; Cooking / Beverages / Coffee & Tea; Tea; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General

Where to Drink Coffee

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Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714873923
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (739 download)

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Book Synopsis Where to Drink Coffee by : Avidan Ross

Download or read book Where to Drink Coffee written by Avidan Ross and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A genius book that will tell you where to get the best coffee, no matter what city you're in... Whether you're discovering new places in your home town, or writing a hit list for your next holiday, it's indispensable."—Buzzfeed The insider's guide to where the world's best baristas go for a cup of coffee - 600 spots in 50 countries. Where to Drink Coffee is the insider's guide. The best 150 baristas and coffee experts share their secrets - 600 spots across 50 countries - revealing where they go for coffee throughout the world. Places chosen range from cafés, bakeries, and restaurants to some more surprising spots, including a video store and an auto shop. The recommendations come with insightful reviews, key information, specially commissioned maps, and an easy-to-navigate geographical organization. It's the only guide you need to get the best coffee in memorable global locations.

Tales and Songs from an Assam Tea Garden

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Tales and Songs from an Assam Tea Garden by : Maurice P. Hanley

Download or read book Tales and Songs from an Assam Tea Garden written by Maurice P. Hanley and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: