Tea Plantation Workers of Assam and the Indian National Movement 1921-1947 /
by Bikash Nath
- Chennai: Primus Books
- 360p,; xvii 22cm.
CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Development of the Tea Industry and the Emergence of an Industrial Working Class in Assa: A Historical Overview 3. The Formation of the Indigenous Tea Capitalists and Their Nationalist Roots 4. Labour on Protest: Gandhi the Non-Cooperation Movement and its Impact, 1920-1922 5. The Depression, the Tea Industry and the Workers' Struggle, 1930-1939 6. Trade Unionism in Assam: The Left and the Tea Plantation Workers 7. The Plantation Workers' Struggle: The Final Phase, 1939-1947 8. Conclusion Includes Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography & Index