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A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation

A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation

Chatterjee, Piya

Paperback

Series: John Hope Franklin Center Book

Indian & South Asian HistorySocial MovementsWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0822326744
ISBN13: 9780822326748
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Nov 29 2001
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements--picturesque women in mist-shrouded fields--came to symbolize the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how this image has distracted from terrible working conditions, low wages, and coercive labor practices enforced by the patronage system.

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