About the Book
In this creative, ethnographic and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation. Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption and circulation of tea.
Allowing personal, scholarly and artistic voices to speak in turn, the author discusses the fetishization of women who labor under colonial, post/colonial and now neofeudal conditions. A Time for Tea demonstates that at the heart of these narratives of travel, conquest and settlement are compelling stories of women workers. While exploring the global and political dimensions of local practices of gendered labor, Chatterjee also reflects on the privileges and paradoxes of her own "decolonisation" as a third world feminist anthropologist.
About the Author
Piya Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA.
Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
1
Alap
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
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