Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India
- ISBN-10
- 0822350491
- ISBN-13
- 9780822350491
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 324
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-08-01
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Author
- Jayeeta Sharma
Description
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.
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