Socio-Economic and Political Problems of Tea Garden Workers
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8183240984
Length
xxii+238p., Tables; Maps; Appendices; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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The book is the result of intensive field study of the socio-economic and political problems confronting the tea plantation labourers of Assam. The morbid situation in Cachar plantations in south Assam, where most of the workers still live a life of penury, is also highlighted here. The immigrant labourers of Assam tea plantations, being the victims of poverty, ignorance, illiteracy and excessive exploitation by the Zamindars and agricultural landlords, left ...