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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharma, Jayeeta, author.

Series:

Radical perspectives

Radical Perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages).

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. In the twentieth century these migrants were joined by others who came voluntarily to seek their livelihoods. In Empire's Garden, Jayeeta Sharma explains how the settlement of more than one million migrants in Assam irrevocably changed the region's social landscape. She argues that the racialized construction of the tea laborer catalyzed a process by which Assam's gentry sought to insert their homeland into an imagined Indo-Aryan community and a modern Indian political space.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100992

ISBN:

9781478091509