Empire's Garden Assam and the Making of India

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...

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Main Author: Sharma, Jayeeta (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC Duke University Press 2011
Series:Radical Perspectives
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