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.

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1. Verfasser: Sharma, Jayeeta
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.