Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India by Jayeeta Sharma (review) Lawrence A. Babb Enterprise Society, Volume 14, Number 2, June 2013, pp. (Review) The Paperback of the Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India by Jayeeta Sharma at Barnes Noble. Review of Empire's garden: Assam and the making of India, by Jayeeta Sharma, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2011. By Jayeeta Sharma In the midnineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India. By Jayeeta Sharma (Durham, Duke University Press, 2011), 324 pp. Nature's Jungle, Empire's Garden 25 2. Borderlands, Rice Eaters, and Tea Growers 49 3. Migrants in the Garden: Expanding the Frontier 79 Part II. Improving Assam, Making India 117 4. Old Lords and Improving Regimes 119 5. Bringing Progress, Restoring Culture 147 6. com: Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India (Radical Perspectives) ( ): Jayeeta Sharma: Books Get this from a library! Empire's garden: Assam and the making of India. [Jayeeta Sharma Buy Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India (Radical Perspectives) by Jayeeta Sharma (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. However, organically produced Assam tea, as she points out, is only a niche market product. The bulk of Assam's tea is produced in large plantations that use ample amounts of synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Read Empires Garden: Assam and the Making of India, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture on DeepDyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly. Jul 01, 2011Empire's Garden has 7 ratings and 2 reviews. Katie said: Interesting read about a very specific region of India (Assam) during British colonial times. Empire's garden: Assam and the making of India. [Jayeeta Sharma A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought. On Jul 1, 2012 Richard Ellis published: Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India Copyedited by: RR Enterprise and Society Advance Access published January 27, 2013 Review Jayeeta Sharma. Empires Garden: Assam and the Making of India. The Paperback of the Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India by Jayeeta Sharma at Barnes Noble. Empires Garden: Assam and the Making of India. Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies The Journal of Critical Food Studies Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2011. There is a theory that dominant histories tend to be about nation states and that frontier societies are ignored. Find great deals for Radical Perspectives: Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India by Jayeeta Sharma, Daniel J. Walkowitz and Barbara Weinstein (2011, Paperback). For the British, race ordered Assam into an imperial teagrowing Edenic garden while, for the Assamese elite, adopting the term Aryan set them apart as a Hindu caste of high Indic past in contrast to other impure and primitive communities.