Plantation crisis: : ruptures of dalit life in the indian tea belt. / / Jayaseelan Raj

What does the collapse of India's tea industry mean for Dalit workers who have lived, worked and died on the plantations since the colonial era? Plantation Crisis offers a complex understanding of how processes of social and political alienation unfold in moments of economic rupture. Based on l...

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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Economic exposures in Asia
Physical Description:1 online resource. (xvi, 213 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Pre-crisis: The making of moral order2
  • Workers: Stay on, move out
  • Retirees: Failed attempt to stay on
  • Youth: Hidden injuries of caste
  • 'Dam'ned in dispute
  • Crisis of relations
  • Rumour and gossip in a time of crisis.
  • New companies, new workforce
  • The social consequences of crises.