02108nam 22004333a 450 991083188930332120250705110038.097814780915091478091509(CKB)4950000000289975(ScCtBLL)ef14a912-bce1-41c4-8ed6-94229cb29fd8(Perlego)2327555(ODN)ODN0010711181(EXLCZ)99495000000028997520211214i20112019 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEmpire's Garden : Assam and the Making of India /Jayeeta Sharma2011Durham, NC :Duke University Press,2011.1 online resource (346 p.)Radical PerspectivesIn 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.Radical PerspectivesHistory / Asia / India & South AsiabisacshHistoryHistory / Asia / India & South AsiaHistory.HIS017000bisacshSharma Jayeeta929888ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910831889303321Empire's Garden2091057UNINA