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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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.