Sociology of Indian Tea Industry: A Study of Inter-Ethnic Relationship

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This is a pioneering research work. It deals with the broad framework of inter-ethnic relationship between workers and management on the one hand and workers and workers hailing from various migrant ethnic groups to tea industry of Arunachal Pradesh on the other. The work also deals with the issues on migration and social change, economic life and cultural integration in tea industry of the state of Arunachal Pradesh. Since this is the first sociological study on tea plantation workers of the enchanted frontier of Arunachal Pradesh, it will be of immense help and guidance to the scholars and general readers who are interested to enrich their knowledge about the sociology of Indian Tea Industry in the near future.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Khemraj Sharma

Khemraj Sharma (b. 1957) earned his M.A. (Sociology and Social Anthropology) and Ph.D. from the University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, West Bengal. He is working as Education Officer in Central Board for Workers’ Education, Ministry of Labour, Government of India since 1987. his areas of specialization are Industrial Relations, Industrial Sociology of plantation in East/North India and Himalayan society. He has already three books to his credit, viz., Socio-Economic Life of Cinchona Plantation Workers in India (1997), The Tea Industry in India: An Introduction (1999) and the Himalayan Tea Plantation Workers (2000). Besides, he has contributed more than twenty-five academic articles to various edited books on Social Anthropology and to the National Journal of Central Board for Workers’ Education, Nagpur. Presently, he is engaged on a Sociological Study on the Nepalese Tea Plantation Workers of North-East India.

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Title
Sociology of Indian Tea Industry: A Study of Inter-Ethnic Relationship
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8183240224
Length
xii+95p., Tables; Bibliography; Index;23cm
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