A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation

by Piya Chatterjee

Book Overview

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. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements--picturesque women in mist-shrouded fields--came to symbolize the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how this image has distracted from terrible working...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326744
• ISBN13: 9780822326748
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"