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Empire's Garden : Assam and the Making of India
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharma, Jayeeta.
- Series:
- Radical perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- British--History--19th century--Assam--India.
- British.
- Tea trade--History--India--Assam.
- Tea trade.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Illustration Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography and Usage; Maps; Introduction; Part I: Making a Garden; 1. Nature's Jungle, Empire's Garden; 2. Borderlands, Rice Eaters, and Tea Growers; 3. Migrants in the Garden: Expanding the Frontier; Part II: Improving Assam, Making India; 4. Old Lords and ''Improving'' Regimes; 5. Bringing Progress, Restoring Culture; 6. Language and Literature: Framing Identity; 7. Contesting Publics: Raced Communities and Gendered History; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Creative Commons Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/arr/4.0/legalcode cc
- ISBN:
- 9786613252364
- 9781283252362
- 1283252368
- 9780822394396
- 0822394391
- OCLC:
- 753324139
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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