Illusive justice: the gendered labour politics of subnationalism in Darjeeling tea plantations

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debarati Sen
Keyword(s):  
Tea Plantations ◽  
Darjeeling Tea

Subnational Occupations

2018 ◽  
pp. 197-218
Author(s):  
Sarah Besky
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Training Centre ◽  
Tea Industry ◽  
Tea Plantations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Darjeeling Tea

Darjeeling’s famed tea plantations are staffed almost exclusively by an Indian Nepali (or Gorkha) labour force, whose ability to advance beyond field labour has been severely limited. In 2008, retired Gorkha plantation managers founded the Darjeeling Tea Management Training Centre (DTMTC). Though it was modeled on similar training programs, DTMTC’s goal had a twist: to prepare Gorkhas as plantation managers. According to DTMTC teachers, the contemporary Darjeeling tea industry remains precarious, stemming from a lack of knowledge on the part of Gorkhas as to how to run the industry. The DTMTC, then, was a novel blend of vocational training and political action. This chapter explores how the institute’s goals were interwoven with ideas of connection between people, plants and moral obligations to care for a Gorkha landscape—a landscape that might be improved with the right kinds of training.

Greater nitrous and nitric oxide emissions from the soil between rows than under the canopy in subtropical tea plantations

Geoderma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 398 ◽  
pp. 115105
Author(s):  
Zhaoqiang Han ◽  
Jinyang Wang ◽  
Pinshang Xu ◽  
Zhirong Sun ◽  
Cheng Ji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Tea Plantations ◽  
Nitric Oxide Emissions

scholarly journals Fear of Small Numbers and Political Behaviour of Ethnocentric Majority of Sri Lanka: Undeclared War against Upcountry Tamil Females

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-125
Author(s):  
Harsha Senanayake
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
International System ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
Tea Plantations ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Abstract The United Nations Human Development Report (UNHDR) mentions that the rights of women and female children are inalienable, integral and indivisible. It further highlights the full and equal participation of women in every segment of the social process without any discrimination or without considering sex - gender hierarchies.1 The legal frameworks of the international system and local political space is accepting of the normative values of gender equality and the eradication of gender-based discrimination. But most of the majoritarian societies challenge these legal frameworks to address their political, social and market-oriented interests. These actions are driven by political, social and structural frameworks which have been accepted by the majoritarian societies in the liberal democratic world. Tamil women in upcountry tea plantations in Sri Lanka were subjected to systemic and structural violence because of Sinhala majoritarian statecrafts in post-independence Sri Lanka. The ethnocentric violence directly problematises human security, survival and the personal rights of the upcountry Tamil female labour force. This paper discusses the survival of Tamil female plantation labour forces, focusing mainly on the security crisis of female reproductive rights under the ethnocentric Sinhala Majoritarian Society.

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