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Tea environments and plantation culture : imperial disarray in eastern India / Arnab Dey, State University of New York at Binghamton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dey, Arnab, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tea.
- History.
- India.
- Tea--India--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 236 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-223) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781108471305
- 1108471307
- OCLC:
- 1043396077
- Publisher Number:
- 99979393089
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