Description
The book Agony of Plantation Workers in NorthEast India deals with socioeconomic agonies of the plantation workers of the state of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Darjeeling of the North East India. The workers are mainly immigrants from various parts of the country, and Nepal. After joining the jobs of tea plantations, they have been barricaded within the plantation enclaves only having little exposure outside the plantation world. Their socioeconomic agonies have been hardly known to the civilized world of human society. The present book shall enlighten their commitements to the industry, organised exploitations in the plantation universe, socioculturals milieus and integration process. It also highlgihts their participation in nation building aptitude and perceptions to the change brought about by the liberalisation of Indian economy including the plantation industry of the region. The book will be the source material for further empirical study on the plantation frontiers of the country.
