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From the Hills to the Plains: The Bengali Entrepreneurs and the Transformation of North Bengal's Tea Industry (1879 - 1947)

by Supam Biswas
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781041234906
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 116
  • Original Price: USD 200.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 359 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Economic History

The book explores the emergence of Bengali entrepreneurship in tea industry of colonial Bengal. Despite the 'Divide and Rule Policy' of the British Government, it shows how the rising tide of nationalism united them and ushered in Indianisation of the trade.

Supam Biswas is, at present, Head of the Department of History, Baneswar Sarathibala Mahavidyalaya, Coochbehar, West Bengal, India. He is the author of Tea World of North Bengal (2016), Partition Trauma, Migration and Divided Ethnicities in North Bengal (2022), The Empire Wrote Future: The British in North Bengal (2024), Social Changes and Transformation: A Study on the Tea Industry of North Bengal (2025), Bengal Renaissance and Cultural Awakening in North Bengal (2026). His main area of research interest is the history of Bengal with a special emphasis on North Bengal.

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