Empire's Garden : Assam and the Making of India /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Radical Perspectives : 20
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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