A Time for Tea
Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
1st Edition
Published on 29. November 2001
434 pages
978-0-8223-8015-3 (ISBN)
Description
An innovative ethnography of the production, circulation, and consumption of tea, centered on the lives of the mostly women workers who produce it.
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11/2001
Duke University Press
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Piya Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
Content
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. Alap 1
2. Travels of Tea, Travels of Empire 20
3. Cultivating the Garden 51
4. The Raj Baroque 84
5. Estates of a New Raj 115
6. Discipline and Labor 168
7. Village Politics 235
8. Protest 289
9. A Last Act 325
Appendix 327
Glossary 333
Notes 335
Bibliography 383
Index 411
Acknowledgments xi
1. Alap 1
2. Travels of Tea, Travels of Empire 20
3. Cultivating the Garden 51
4. The Raj Baroque 84
5. Estates of a New Raj 115
6. Discipline and Labor 168
7. Village Politics 235
8. Protest 289
9. A Last Act 325
Appendix 327
Glossary 333
Notes 335
Bibliography 383
Index 411
