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Author(s): Ravi Raman
ISBN(s): 9780203869819, 041555103X
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Year: 2010
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ISBN 10: 041555103X 
ISBN 13: 9780203869819
Author: Ravi Raman

This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focuses on labour and economic development problems and uses the World Systems theory so as to demonstrate the practical utility of the theory and its limitations as a guide to historical research. Based on extensive archival research, the book interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism by focusing on the work, life and struggle of the dalits on plantations in colonial and post-colonial South India as they evolved from the mid-19th century. It argues that these elements of the plantation life-world were fashioned by the specific characteristics of the workers’ location within the capitalist world-economy, the then prevailing local social structure and the scheme of disciplining to which the workers were subjected to. Treating the relations among various social forces – the planting communities, the oppressed communities (dalits in India), the regional and national state, and the Imperial regime, this book fills a gap in academic literature on capitalism, economic development, and globalization.

Global Capital and Peripheral Labour The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India 1st Table of contents:

1 Peripheral labour
1.1 Peripheral labour: Critiquing the Subaltern Studies
1.2 Situating the peripheries within peripheries
1.3 The commodity chain trap?
1.4 Plantation literature on South Asia: Overview
1.5 Geographical and political ‘inner boundaries’ of the study: The Indian south
1.6 A word on availability/non-availability of research material
1.7 Organisation of the study
2 Periphery in the making
I COLONIAL PLANTATIONS AS INCORPORATION
2.1 Integration with the world economy
2.2 Imperial resolution as privatisation of property rights
2.3 The ‘coffee-era’
2.4 Lure of cinchona and the gold rush
2.5 Tea: The new Imperial asset
2.6 Appropriation of lands
2.6.1 Land at throw-away prices
2.6.2 Land as concession: The case of the world’s largest plantation
2.6.3 Large-scale encroachments
2.7 Fiscal incentives: Taxes on production and trade
2.8 Of over-acquisition and what it means
2.9 Research, processing technology and development
2.10 Roads, railways and ports as incorporation
2.11 Public Works Department and the planters’ roads
2.12 Rail connections
II GEOGRAPHICAL VIOLENCE AS INCORPORATION
2.13 Of people, nature and sequesteration
2.14 Looming ecological crisis
III GLOBAL COMMODITY CHAIN
2.15 Commodity flow: From the periphery to the core
2.16 Cornering the global market
2.17 Summing-up
3 Structure, dynamics and the hegemony of European capital
3.1 From proprietorship to global capital: Late nineteenth-century scenario
3.2 The managing agency system and predominance of English merchant capital
3.3 From concentration to centralisation: Further hegemony of British capital
3.4 The political presence
II SOURCES OF CONFLICT: GLOBAL CAPITAL VERSUS PROVINCIAL/LOCAL CAPITAL
3.5 Impediments to the growth of provincial/local capital
3.6 International tea cartel: Further constraints for the local capital
3.7 Provincial bourgeoisie on protest: Brooke Bond defeated
3.8 Entry of pan Indian capital: Two historical contexts
3.9 Summing up
4 Plantation worker-families
I SOURCING FROM DEEP PERIPHERY: SOCIAL ORIGINS
4.1 Dispossessed tribesmen, peasants and tenants
4.2 Migrants from misfortune-ridden areas
4.3 Early twentieth century: Labour still plentiful
4.4 The system of recruitment
4.5 How did the kangany system function?
4.6 Abusive tactics
II SOCIAL COMPOSITION AND GENDER DIVISIONS
4.7 Size and growth of plantation workforce
4.8 Socially hierarchised global commodity chain: Dalit women and children
4.9 Summing-up
5 Slaves reborn?
I ESTATE AS A PATRIARCHAL SITE
5.1 Socially/hierarchically embedded labour process
5.2 Engaging and disengaging with feudal past
5.3 Disciplining the Dalits/punishments: Hard as nails
5.4 Sexual threat, social ostracism, alien diseases
II ‘STATE WITHIN STATE?’
5.5 Chain of anti-labour rules
5.6 From Breach of Contract Act (1859) to Madras Planters’ Labour Act (1903)
5.7 Planters, police and prosecutions
5.8 Summing-up
6 Global accumulation, local immiserisation
I ASPECTS OF REPRODUCTION
6.1 Wages, earnings and levels of living
6.2 Wages in the late nineteenth century: A prolonged stagnation
6.3 Wages in the twentieth century: Rise and fall
6.4 Family budget, indebtedness and debt trap
6.5 Health status and mortality
6.5.1 Poverty and malnutrition
6.5.2 Malaria, cholera and other dreadful diseases
6.5.3 Poor medical facilities
6.6 Housing and accommodation
6.7 The darkness of illiteracy
II CRISIS RELAYED, BENEFITS RETAINED
6.8 The Great Depression
6.9 Large-scale retrenchment, intensification
6.10 Post-Depression and the Imperial War (1933–46)
6.11 New exploitative practices continued: Intensification, fines, surplus drain
6.12 Summing-up
7 Identities, historical consciousness and conflicts
I BELATED DEVELOPMENT OF SUBALTERN CONSCIOUSNESS
7.1 Conflicting identities: Religion, caste and culture
7.2 Differential wages, divided workforce
7.3 Isolationism, territorial and political
7.4 Subaltern outbursts
7.5 Political-social space and search for an identity
7.6 1930s: The Depression, the Civil Disobedience and a fresh search for an identity
II PLANTER–COMMUNIST INTERFACE
7.7 War, freedom struggle and emergence of unions
7.8 Planters, the communists and the state
7.9 Summing-up
8 The Post-colonial State
8.1 Pulling down the communist regime
8.2 Shift of hegemony, the new masters and surplus drain
8.3 Neo-liberalism, the new trade regime and the crisis
8.4 Relaying the crisis: The materiality of commodity chain trap
8.5 Subaltern unionism, militancy, alternatives
8.6 Summing up
9 Colonial legacy and neo-liberal predicaments
9.1 New masters, old/new practices and strategies
9.2 The politics of employee buyout: Birth of KDHPCL
9.3 Capital deserts labour?
9.4 Subaltern solidarity: Resilience, collusion or capitulation?
Glossary
A. Glossary of the names of places*
B. Glossary of Terms
C. Glossary of Currency with Conversion Rates
Notes
Bibliography
1. Archives in the UK
a. India Office Library & Records, London, the UK
b. University of Glasgow, Glasgow
c. Guildhall Library, London
d. Centre for South Asian Studies Archive, University of Cambridge
2. Archives in India
a. Tamil Nadu State Archives, Madras
b. Regional Archives, Kozhikode, Kerala
c. Secretariat Cellar
3. Legislative Proceedings
4. Government Publications
a. Census of India
b. Gazetteers and Manuals
c. Reports
d. Statistical Series
5. Minutes and Proceedings of the Planters’ Associations
6. Newspapers and Journals, selected years
7. Interviews
8. Published Articles and Books
Index

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