Empire's Garden : Assam and the Making of India
Jayeeta. Sharma
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Durham : : Duke University Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (345 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; Illustration Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography and Usage; Maps; Introduction; Part I: Making a Garden; 1. Nature's Jungle, Empire's Garden; 2. Borderlands, Rice Eaters, and Tea Growers; 3. Migrants in the Garden: Expanding the Frontier; Part II: Improving Assam, Making India; 4. Old Lords and ''Improving'' Regimes; 5. Bringing Progress, Restoring Culture; 6. Language and Literature: Framing Identity; 7. Contesting Publics: Raced Communities and Gendered History; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. - 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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| ISBN | 0-8223-9439-1. - 1-283-25236-8. - 9786613252364
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