This book aims to examine the various aspects of the tea smallholdings of Assam. Discussing the contexts, space as well as the constraints, it analyses how the tea smallholdings in Assam are now placed to usher the tea sector as in a vibrant and dominant production mode. Further assessing the performance of the estate sector tea plantations of Assam over the past few decades, it explores what has gone wrong on policy and managerial fronts forcing the sector to ...