TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharma,Jayeeta
TI  - Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India 
T2  - Radical Perspectives
SN  - 9781478091509
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - History / Asia / India & South Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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 peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. In the twentieth century these migrants were joined by others who came voluntarily to seek their livelihoods. In Empire's Garden, Jayeeta Sharma explains how the settlement of more than one million migrants in Assam irrevocably changed the region's social landscape. She argues that the racialized construction of the tea laborer catalyzed a process by which Assam's gentry sought to insert their homeland into an imagined Indo-Aryan community and a modern Indian political space
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/ef14a912-bce1-41c4-8ed6-94229cb29fd8
ER  -