Offers an empirical labour history of the plantations of Sri Lanka from their inception in the early nineteenth century to almost the present day, with a special focus on plantation workers (who have overwhelmingly been Tamils of Indian origin) and their struggles for economic, social and political rights. Special focus on the links between power and class, gender and ethnic hierarchies both on the plantations and outside. Plantation workers have traditionally ...
Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism
While recent research on adivasis under colonial rule tends to focus on issues of identity politics, categories and definitions, it is important to emphasise that the histories of adivasis were shaped by the constantly evolving British policy towards them, their own unique features, socio-cultural traditions, and the nature of their integration within the colonial state, which in turn determined their self-definitions and their relations with others. This book ...
