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Author Sharma, Jayeeta.

Title Empire's Garden : Assam and the Making of India / Jayeeta Sharma.

Publication Info. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019.
©2011.

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Description 1 online resource (343 pages): illustrations, maps.
text file
Series Radical perspectives
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Radical perspectives.
Contents Nature's jungle, empire's garden -- Borderlands, rice eaters, and tea growers -- Migrants in the garden : expanding the frontier -- Old lords and "improving" regimes -- Bringing progress, restoring culture -- Language and literature : framing identity -- Contesting publics : raced communities and gendered history.
Summary 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.
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Subject Assam (India) -- History.
Assam.
Assam.
India -- Assam.
Assam (Inde) -- Histoire.
Assam (India) -- History.
Tea trade -- India -- Assam -- History.
British -- India -- Assam -- History -- 19th century.
Pflanzenbau.
Tee.
Sozialer Wandel.
Migration.
Kulturelle Identität.
South Asia.
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries -- Asia & the Middle East.
Kolonialismus.
Teehandel.
Teeanbau.
Sozialer Wandel.
Ahom.
Einwanderung.
Kulturelle Identität.
Tea trade.
British.
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
The -- Commerce -- Inde -- Assam -- Histoire.
Britanniques -- Inde -- Assam -- Histoire -- 19e siecle.
Tea trade -- India -- Assam -- History.
History.
British -- India -- Assam -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books. .
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9781478091509
9780822350491
9780822350323
9780822394396
0822394391
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9781283252362
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