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Coolies of Capitalism : Assam Tea and the Making of Coolie Labour, Nitin Varma, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- ""Coolie" is a generic category for the "unskilled" manual labour. The offering of services for hire had various pre-colonial lineages. In the nineteenth century there was an attempt to recast the term in discursive constructions and material practices for "mobilized-immobilized" labour. Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). It was portrayed as a stage in a promised transition. The tea plantations of Assam, like many other tropical plantations in South Asia, were inaugurated and formalized during this period. They were initially worked by the locals. In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were unquestioningly designated "coolies" in the historical literature. Qualifying this framework of transition (local to coolie labour) and introduction (of coolie labour), this study makes a case for the "production" of coolie labour in the history of the colonial-capitalist plantations in Assam. The intention of the research is not to suggest an unfettered agency of colonial-capitalism in defining and "producing" coolies, with an emphasis on the attendant contingencies, negotiations, contestations and crises. The study intervenes in the narratives of an abrupt appearance of the archetypical coolie of the tea gardens (i.e., imported and indentured) and situates this archetype's emergence, sustenance and shifts in the context of material and discursive processes."--
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- eng
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- 4. Drink and Work
- 5. Dustoor of Plantations
- 6. Gandhi baba ka Hookum
- 7. Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Frontmatter
- Content
- List of Tables and Graphs
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1. Tea in the Colony
- 2. Contracts, Contractors and Coolies
- 3. Unpopular Assam
- Isbn
- 9783110463170
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- Coolies of Capitalism : Assam Tea and the Making of Coolie Labour
- Title
- Coolies of Capitalism
- Title remainder
- Assam Tea and the Making of Coolie Labour
- Statement of responsibility
- Nitin Varma
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Summary
- ""Coolie" is a generic category for the "unskilled" manual labour. The offering of services for hire had various pre-colonial lineages. In the nineteenth century there was an attempt to recast the term in discursive constructions and material practices for "mobilized-immobilized" labour. Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). It was portrayed as a stage in a promised transition. The tea plantations of Assam, like many other tropical plantations in South Asia, were inaugurated and formalized during this period. They were initially worked by the locals. In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were unquestioningly designated "coolies" in the historical literature. Qualifying this framework of transition (local to coolie labour) and introduction (of coolie labour), this study makes a case for the "production" of coolie labour in the history of the colonial-capitalist plantations in Assam. The intention of the research is not to suggest an unfettered agency of colonial-capitalism in defining and "producing" coolies, with an emphasis on the attendant contingencies, negotiations, contestations and crises. The study intervenes in the narratives of an abrupt appearance of the archetypical coolie of the tea gardens (i.e., imported and indentured) and situates this archetype's emergence, sustenance and shifts in the context of material and discursive processes."--
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- Varma, Nitin.,
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- In English
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
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- Work in Global and Historical Perspective
- Open Access e-Books
- Series volume
- 2
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- Labor
- Tea trade
- Working class
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- Contents
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- 4. Drink and Work
- 5. Dustoor of Plantations
- 6. Gandhi baba ka Hookum
- 7. Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Frontmatter
- Content
- List of Tables and Graphs
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1. Tea in the Colony
- 2. Contracts, Contractors and Coolies
- 3. Unpopular Assam
- Control code
- 9783110463170
- Extent
- 1 online resource
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- online
- Isbn
- 9783110463170
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- 10.1515/9783110463170
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- (OCoLC)979589966
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- Coolies of Capitalism : Assam Tea and the Making of Coolie Labour, Nitin Varma, (electronic resource)
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- Contents
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- 4. Drink and Work
- 5. Dustoor of Plantations
- 6. Gandhi baba ka Hookum
- 7. Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Frontmatter
- Content
- List of Tables and Graphs
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1. Tea in the Colony
- 2. Contracts, Contractors and Coolies
- 3. Unpopular Assam
- Control code
- 9783110463170
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9783110463170
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- Other control number
- 10.1515/9783110463170
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