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A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation(A John Hope Franklin Center Book)

A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation(A John Hope Franklin Center Book)


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In this ethnographic and historical critique of labour practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated and creative examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements - picturesque women in mist-shrouded fields - came to symbolise the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how this image has distracted from terrible working conditions, horribly low wages, and coercive labour practices enforced by the patronage system. Allowing personal, scholarly, and artistic voices to speak in turn and in tandem, Chatterjee discusses the fetishisation of women who labour under colonial, postcolonial, and now neo-feudal conditions. In exploring the global and political dimensions of local practices of gendered labour, she reflects on the privileges and paradoxes of her own "decolonisation" as a third-world female anthropologist. In the end, the history of empire itself is traced through tea's journey in the British imagination from an exotic to a consolingly domestic commodity. Chatterjee concludes with an extended reflection on the politics of women labourers to examine the intermingling of gender, class, caste, and ethnicity with issues of hierarchy, difference, and power. A Time for Tea will appeal to anthropologists and historians, South Asianists, and those interested in colonialism, postcolonialism, labour studies, and comparative or international feminism.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Alap 1 2. Travels of Tea, Travels of Empire 20 3. Cultivating the Garden 51 4. The Raj Baroque 84 5. Estates of a New Raj 115 6. Discipline and Labor 168 7. Village Politics 235 8. Protest 289 9. A Last Act 325 Appendix 327 Glossary 333 Notes 335 Bibliography 383 Index 411

About the Author :
Piya Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Review :
"In this outstanding work Piya Chatterjee presents new material on the ethnography of tea plantation workers, and brings us to new understandings of familiar material on global flows, subaltern history, labour relations, and feminist ethnography. Anthropologists and South Asianists alike will enthusiastically welcome this memorable book." - Kirin Narayan, author of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching "This is a finely layered, theoretically astute and informed cultural and historical account of a tea plantation in India. The ethnography is not content to address localised politics and culture; its importance lies in the way in which it reveals the global and political dimensions of local practices of gendered labour." - Inderpal Grewal, author of Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822326793
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 440
  • Sub Title: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
  • ISBN-10: 0822326795
  • Publisher Date: 29 Nov 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 440
  • Series Title: A John Hope Franklin Center Book
  • Weight: 953 gr


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