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Global Investment – Impact on PRE and POST Colonial Assam

17 November, 2011

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Women tea workers pluck tea leaves at the Krishna Bihari Tea Garden in Sivasagar, Assam on 27 April 2011. Assam and neighboring states account for more than 70 percent of the more than 1 million tons produced by India's $1.5 billion tea industry. The tea plantations employ nearly 3 million people, mostly women, in jobs that pay about $1.50 a day, plus free housing and subsidized food. Most of the workers are illiterate.

Pre-colonial Assam had a feudal economy. The Assamese king was the absolute owner of all land except the royal grants…