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245	0	0	_aEmpire's Garden _bAssam and the Making of India / _cJayeeta Sharma.
020			_a9781478091509
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100	1		_aSharma, Jayeeta _eauthor.
264		1	_bDuke University Press,
300			_a1 online resource (346 p.)
490	1		_aRadical Perspectives
506	0		_aAccess copy available to the general public. _fUnrestricted _2star
520			_aIn 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.
588	0		_aDescription based on print version record.
590			_aKU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
650		7	_aHistory / Asia / India & South Asia _2bisacsh
650		0	_aHistory
655		0	_aElectronic books.
758			_iIs found in: _aKnowledge Unlatched _1https://openresearchlibrary.org/module/2774bc74-146a-484f-a7ba-ab1d6a09bbfb
830	0		_aRadical Perspectives
856	4	0	_uhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/content/ef14a912-bce1-41c4-8ed6-94229cb29fd8 _zView this content on Open Research Library. _70
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