1st Edition
Colonial Globalization and its Effects on South Asia Eastern Bengal, Sylhet, and Assam, 1874–1971
By Ashfaque Hossain
Copyright 2023
288 Pages
by
Routledge India
288 Pages
by
Routledge India
288 Pages
by
Routledge India
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This book investigates the concept of colonial globalization to show how knowledge, information, technology, capital and labour have the potential to move freely across the world. It studies the experience of globalization "from below", rather than from the perspective of the British imperial centre.
Focusing on the impact of colonial globalization on the people of Sylhet, East Bengal,... Read more
1. Tea Capitalism, Three Districts of East Bengal and the Making of Modern Assam 1874-1947 2. Overseas and Local Entrepreneurs: A Century of Transformation in the Tea Plantations 3. Labour and the Tea Plantations in Sylhet and Assam 4. Counter Flow of Globalization and the World of Bengali Seamen in the Age of Empire 5. Communication, Local Government, Education and Public Health 6. Concept of Nationalism and Political Mobilizations from 1874 to 1971: Making, Unmaking and Remaking of Assam-Bengal Borders
Biography
Ashfaque Hossain, Professor, Department of History, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
