Tea Plantation Workers of Assam and the Indian National Movement, 1921-1947

Tea Plantation Workers of Assam and the Indian National Movement, 1921-1947

Author: Bikash Nath

Publisher: Ratna Sagar

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9789384092177

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Tea Plantation Workers of Assam and the Indian National Movement, 1921-1947 studies the various phases of workers' politics in the tea plantations of Assam and deliberates upon the role of nationalist leaders in moulding the fate of these workers. The struggles of the tea plantation workers were a manifestation of the strength of their protests against the varied forms of exploitations of the tea planters. Their struggle occurred at the time of the formation of the indigenous bourgeoisie and continued despite the nationalist leadership not providing sufficient support to them. There remained a deep incongruity between the interests of the workers and the interests of the nationalist leadership which largely determined the fate of the material conditions of the labourers in deeper aspects.


Tea Plantation Workers of Assam and the Indian National Movement, 1921-1947

Tea Plantation Workers of Assam and the Indian National Movement, 1921-1947

Author: Bikash Nath

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789384082628

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Tea Plantation Workers of Assam and the Indian National Movement, 1921-1947 studies the various phases of workers' politics in the tea plantations of Assam and deliberates upon the role of nationalist leaders in moulding the fate of these workers. The struggles of the tea plantation workers were a manifestation of the strength of their protests against the varied forms of exploitations of the tea planters. Their struggle occurred at the time of the formation of the indigenous bourgeoisie and continued despite the nationalist leadership not providing sufficient support to them. There remained a deep incongruity between the interests of the workers and the interests of the nationalist leadership which largely determined the fate of the material conditions of the labourers in deeper aspects.


A Time for Tea

A Time for Tea

Author: Piya Chatterjee

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2001-11-29

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 0822380153

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In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements—picturesque women in mist-shrouded fields—came to symbolize the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how this image has distracted from terrible working conditions, low wages, and coercive labor practices enforced by the patronage system. Allowing personal, scholarly, and artistic voices to speak in turn and in tandem, Chatterjee discusses the fetishization of women who labor under colonial, postcolonial, and now neofeudal conditions. In telling the overarching story of commodity and empire, A Time for Tea demonstrates that at the heart of these narratives of travel, conquest, and settlement are compelling stories of women workers. While exploring the global and political dimensions of local practices of gendered labor, Chatterjee also reflects on the privileges and paradoxes of her own “decolonization” as a Third World feminist anthropologist. The book concludes with an extended reflection on the cultures of hierarchy, power, and difference in the plantation’s villages. It explores the overlapping processes by which gender, caste, and ethnicity constitute the interlocked patronage system of villages and their fields of labor. The tropes of coercion, consent, and resistance are threaded through the discussion. A Time for Tea will appeal to anthropologists and historians, South Asianists, and those interested in colonialism, postcolonialism, labor studies, and comparative or international feminism. Designated a John Hope Franklin Center book by the John Hope Franklin Seminar Group on Race, Religion, and Globalization.


INDIA'S FREEDOM MOVEMENT (1857-1947) (REVISION NOTES) ARORA IAS for UPSC /IAS / STATE PCS / CTET/PET/POLICE/EPFO/CDS/NDA/NET-JRF/DEFENCE/SSC/COLLEGE/SCHOOL ETC. EXAM

INDIA'S FREEDOM MOVEMENT (1857-1947) (REVISION NOTES) ARORA IAS for UPSC /IAS / STATE PCS / CTET/PET/POLICE/EPFO/CDS/NDA/NET-JRF/DEFENCE/SSC/COLLEGE/SCHOOL ETC. EXAM

Author: TEAM ARORA IAS

Publisher: Arora IAS

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Total Pages: 105

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INDEX CHAPTER 1 : The Great Mutiny of 1857 CHAPTER 2 : Indigenous Revolts and Tribal Insurrections CHAPTER 3 : Peasant Revolts and Uprisings Post-1857 CHAPTER 4 : The Formation of the Congress: Debunking the Myths CHAPTER 5 : The True Story Behind the Formation of the Indian National Congress CHAPTER 6 : Socio-Religious Reforms: Catalysts of the National Awakening CHAPTER 7 : An Economic Analysis of Colonial Exploitation CHAPTER 8 : Advocating for Press Freedom: A Historical Perspective CHAPTER 9 : The Use of Propaganda within Legislative Bodies CHAPTER 10 : The Swadeshi Movement: Unveiling the Spirit of Nationalism (1903-1908) CHAPTER 11 : Congressional Fissure and the Emergence of Revolutionary Violence CHAPTER 12 : World War I and the Ghadar Movement: Catalysts for Indian Nationalism CHAPTER 13 : The Home Rule Movement and Its Aftermath CHAPTER 14 : Gandhiji's Formative Years and Activism Beginnings CHAPTER 15 : Gandhi's Formative Years and Early Activism CHAPTER 16 : Rural Uprisings and Nationalism in the 1920s CHAPTER 17 : Indian Labor Movement and the Nationalist Struggle CHAPTER 18 : Activism for Gurdwara Reform and Temple Access CHAPTER 19 : Era of Stagnation: Swarajists, Status Quo Advocates, and Gandhi's Influence CHAPTER 20 : Bhagat Singh, Surya Sen, and Revolutionary Activism CHAPTER 21 : Rising Tensions: 1927-29 CHAPTER 22 : Civil Disobedience Movement CHAPTER 23 : Journey from Karachi to Wardha: 1932-34 CHAPTER 24 : The Emergence of Left-Wing Movements CHAPTER 25 : Strategic Discussions: 1935-37 CHAPTER 26 : Twenty-Eight Months of Congress Governance CHAPTER 27 : Rural Uprisings During the 1930s and 1940s CHAPTER 28 : The Independence Movement in Princely States CHAPTER 29 : Indian Industrialists and the Nationalist Movement CHAPTER 30 : Evolution of Nationalist Foreign Policy CHAPTER 31 : The Emergence and Expansion of Communalism CHAPTER 32 : Communalism in its Liberal Phase CHAPTER 33 : Jinnah, Golwalkar, and Radical Communalism CHAPTER 34 : From the Tripuri Crisis to the Cripps Mission CHAPTER 35 : From the Quit India Movement to the INA CHAPTER 36 : Post-War National Awakening: India's Path to Independence CHAPTER 37 : Freedom and Partition: The Birth of India and Pakistan CHAPTER 38 : Strategic Evolution of the Indian National Movement CHAPTER 39 : The Ideological Landscape of the Indian National Movement


Tea Environments and Plantation Culture

Tea Environments and Plantation Culture

Author: Arnab Dey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-12-13

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1108610153

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Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal, environmental, and agro-economic aspects of tea production illuminate covert, expedient, and often illegal administrative and commercial dealings that had an immediate and long-term human and environmental impact on the region. Critiquing this imperial commodity's advertised mandate of agrarian modernization in colonial India, Dey points to numerous tea pests, disease ecologies, felled forests, harsh working conditions, wage manipulation, and political resistance as examples of tea's unseemly legacy in the subcontinent. Dey draws together the plant and the plantation in highlighting the ironies of the tea economy and its consequences for the agrarian history of eastern India.


Modern India 1885–1947

Modern India 1885–1947

Author: Sumit Sarkar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1989-01-24

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1349197122

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'...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be the starting point for everyone doing any work, from sixth forms upwards, on modern India.' D.A.Low


Planter Raj to Swaraj

Planter Raj to Swaraj

Author: Amalendu Guha

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-25

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9789382381341

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This is a re-issue of Amalendu Guha's influential work on Assam and the Northeast, 30 years after its original publication, with a new introduction by the author. Guha's analysis extends from Assam in 1826, the year of the British annexation, to the post-independence conditions in 1950. The peculiar features of the region's plantation economy; the imperialism of opium cultivation; the problems of a stready influx of immigrants and the backlash of a local linguistic chauvinism; peasants' and workers' struggles; the evolution of the ryot sabhas, the Congress, trade unions and later of the Communist Party - such are the themes that have received attention in this book, alongside an analysis of legislative and administrative processes.The narrative is structured chronologically within an integrated Marxist framework of historical perspective, and is based on a wide range of primary sources.


Global Capital and Peripheral Labour

Global Capital and Peripheral Labour

Author: Ravi Raman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1135196583

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Presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. This book shows how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. It focuses on labour and economic development problems and interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism.


A History of Intoxication

A History of Intoxication

Author: Kawal Deep Kour

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-28

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1000730034

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This volume unearths the emerging pattern of consumption of opium in colonial Assam and the creation of drug-dependency in a social context. It analyses the competing forces of the empire which played a key role in the production and distribution of opium; national politics alongside international drug diplomacy and how these together shaped the discourse of opium in Assam; the wider implications of opium production and consumption in the agrarian economy and the narrative of the nationalist critique of intoxication. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.