Planting 'Improvement': Tea in British India
This paper provides a critical reflection on the operational logic, ideological inconsistencies, and material fallout of the tea plantation economy of northeastern India, a large-scale commercial enterprise that induced transformative changes to the region's biosocial landscape for a century a...
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doaj-003dfb146fa1456a888a74266b1f93852021-03-18T20:45:48ZdeuStudienVerlagÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften1016-765X2707-966X2019-12-0130310.25365/oezg-2019-30-3-4Planting 'Improvement': Tea in British IndiaArnab Dey0Department of History, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton This paper provides a critical reflection on the operational logic, ideological inconsistencies, and material fallout of the tea plantation economy of northeastern India, a large-scale commercial enterprise that induced transformative changes to the region's biosocial landscape for a century and more. Unlike existing works on the subject, however, this study focuses on agro-economic ideology – namely the relationship between the crop and its built environment – to highlight the impact of tea on labor, disease ecology, and modernist parables of "progress" in British East India. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3783teaBritish Indiadevelopment regimesagro-economyplantation history |
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This paper provides a critical reflection on the operational logic, ideological inconsistencies, and material fallout of the tea plantation economy of northeastern India, a large-scale commercial enterprise that induced transformative changes to the region's biosocial landscape for a century and more. Unlike existing works on the subject, however, this study focuses on agro-economic ideology – namely the relationship between the crop and its built environment – to highlight the impact of tea on labor, disease ecology, and modernist parables of "progress" in British East India.
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