1st Edition
From the Hills to the Plains The Bengali Entrepreneurs and the transformation of North Bengal's Tea Industry (1879 – 1947)
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Evolution of the Bengali Entrepreneurship in the Tea Industry
Chapter 2 Navigating British Barriers: The Rise of Bengali Tea Associations
Chapter 3 Beyond the Plantation: the Livelihood of Bengali Entrepreneurs
Chapter 4 The Role of the Bengali Entrepreneurs in shaping the Cultural Landscape
Chapter 5 The Role of Bengali Entrepreneurs in Freedom struggle Movement
Chapter 6 Emergence of Bengali Babu Class in Tea Gardens
Chapter 7 Decline of Bengali Entrepreneurship in the Tea Industry
Conclusion
Biography
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.
