Ashfaque Hossain

Colonial Globalization and its Effects on South Asia

Eastern Bengal, Sylhet, and Assam, 1874-1971

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Produktbeschreibung

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 focuses on the impact of colonial globalization on the people of Sylhet, East Bengal, and Assam.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781032325613
• ISBN-10: 1032325615
• Artikelnr.: 64103256

Autorenporträt

Ashfaque Hossain, Professor, Department of History, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Inhaltsangabe

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