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Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka

by Mythri Jegathesan, Series edited by Piya Chatterjee, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019, 288 pp., $30 (paperback), ISBN 978-0295745671

Sita VenkateswarSchool of People, Environment & Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, Manawatū, Aotearoa, New ZealandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1146-1147 | Published online: 12 Oct 2022
 
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"Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 45(6), pp. 1146–1147

Notes

1. S. Besky, The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014); S. Besky, Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020); D. Sen, Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling (New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2018).

2. Piya Chatterjee, A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001).

3. Ur is a Tamil word used to refer to country, native place and home. As used by Hill Country Tamil women workers, it simultaneously encompasses all these usages.

4. Carole McGranahan, ‘Teaching Tibet in a Time of Precarious Emotion’, Society for Cultural Anthropology (Hot Spots), April 8, 2021, accessed May 12, 2021, https://culanth.org/fieldsights/teaching-tibet-in-a-time-of-precarious-emotion.

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