Coolies of Capitalism Assam Tea and the Making of Coolie Labour

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Varma, Nitin [auth]

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TextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2016Description: 1 electronic resource (242 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9783110461152
9783110461282
9783110463170
9783110463170

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Summary: Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were designated "coolies". Qualifying this framework of transition and introduction, this study makes a case for the "production" of coolie labour in the history of the colonial-capitalist plantations in Assam.

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Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were designated "coolies". Qualifying this framework of transition and introduction, this study makes a case for the "production" of coolie labour in the history of the colonial-capitalist plantations in Assam.