Rana Behal, One Hundred Years of Servitude: Political Economy of Tea Plantations in Colonial Assam
On Thursday 4 December Rana Behal will present his book:
One Hundred Years of Servitude: Political Economy of Tea Plantations in Colonial Assam
The book presents a hundred-year history of tea plantations in the Assam (Brahmaputra) Valley during British colonial rule in India. It explores a world where more than two million migrantlabourers worked under conditions of indentured servitude in these tea plantations, producing tea for an increasingly profitable global market.