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Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India by Jayeeta Sharma (Paperback, 2011)

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Author: Jayeeta Sharma. Claiming that local peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. Various linguistic and racial claims allowed these elites to defend their own modernity while pushing the burden of primitiveness onto “non-Aryan” indigenous tribals and migrant laborers.