Coolies of capitalism : Assam tea and the making of coolie labour / Nitin Varma.

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1.Tea in the Colony -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.Discovery of Tea and the Skills of Chinese Work -- 1.3.Framing Plantations and encounters with the Lazy Native Worker -- 1.4.Experimental Plantations and the search for Immobilised Worker -- 1.5.Privatising the discovery and the emergence of the Assam Company -- 1.6.Early Plantation enterprise and Kachari as the Ideal Worker -- 1.7.Assamese peasant as coolie labour -- 1.8.The Migrant Worker solution -- 2.Contracts, Contractors and Coolies -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Protection, Exceptionalism and the beginnings of the Assam Contract -- 2.3.The `Protection' of Private arrest and the construction of managerial authority -- 2.4.Assam Contract and the `Protection' of the Coolie -- 2.5.Act XIII and the Assam Contract(s) system -- 2.6.Contractors, Sardars and the Assam Contract System -- 2.7.Discourse of reform and the new contract regime -- 2.8.Practice of Free System -- 2.9.Free System in Surma Valley -- 2.10.Conclusions -- 3.Unpopular Assam -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Assam as a Lost World -- 3.3.Problems of Life and Work on the Tea Gardens -- 3.4.Songs and Oral Traditions of Tea Workers -- 3.5.Deception of Recruiters and the Fear of Assam -- 3.6.The `Choice' of Assam -- 3.7.Conclusions -- 4.Drink and Work -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Colonial Policy and Taxing the "Coolie Drink" -- 4.3.Drink as Work Stimulant -- 4.4.Industrial Tea, Intensification of Work and the Intoxicant Drink -- 4.5.Drink and the Emerging Working Culture -- 4.6.The Controls of Drink and Drinking Workers -- 4.7.Conclusions -- 5.Dustoor of Plantations -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Dustoor and Assam Tea Gardens in the late nineteenth century -- 5.3.The Shifting Authority of Manager -- 5.4.The Rice Question -- 5.5.The Occasions of Tea Garden -- 5.6.Coolie Lines -- 5.7.Work Place, Authority Structure and Issues of Tasks and Wages -- 5.8.Notions of Honour -- 5.9.Violence as Protest, Protest as Violence -- 5.10.A Collective Will to Leave -- 5.11.Conclusions -- 6.Gandhi baba ka Hookum -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Situating the Episode -- 6.3.Markets and New Networks of Information -- 6.4.Anxieties of Colonial State and Nationalists -- 6.5.The Legitimacy of the Manager -- 6.6.Changing Practices of Work, Life and Control on Sylhet Plantations -- 6.7.A New Will to Leave -- 7.Epilogue.

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