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...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Durham, NC
Duke University Press
2011
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| Series: | Radical Perspectives
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |