Empire's Garden : Assam and the Making of India /

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.

Saved in:
Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Sharma, Jayeeta
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Serier:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Fag:
Online adgang:Full text available:
Tags: Tilføj Tag
Ingen Tags, Vær først til at tagge denne postø!
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Nature's jungle, empire's garden
  • Borderlands, rice eaters, and tea growers
  • Migrants in the garden : expanding the frontier
  • Old lords and "improving" regimes
  • Bringing progress, restoring culture
  • Language and literature : framing identity
  • Contesting publics : raced communities and gendered history.