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Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement provides a comprehensive historical analysis of how tea cultivation became intertwined with racial ideologies and settlement strategies during the British colonial period in India. Jane McCabe investigates the deliberate policies that shaped plantation labor, migration patterns, and social hierarchies within tea-growing regions.
The work explores how colonial administrators justified their resettlement programs through racial frameworks, examining the experiences of workers, indigenous populations, and British settlers. McCabe analyzes archival documents, plantation records, and personal accounts to reveal the human dimensions of colonial economic expansion.
This scholarly work contributes significantly to postcolonial studies and the history of empire, offering fresh perspectives on how commercial interests, racial theory, and territorial control intersected in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Essential reading for historians, students of colonial studies, and those interested in the long-term impacts of colonialism on modern South Asia.
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