Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India by Jayeeta Sharma

Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India

Jayeeta Sharma

344 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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