Coolies of Capitalism : Assam Tea and the Making of Coolie Labour.

Intro -- Content -- Introduction -- 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 -- 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 -- Bibliography.

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