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.

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sharma, Jayeeta
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Full text available:
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.