Papers by Dibyanjoly Hazarika
Indian Historical Review, Nov 30, 2023
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, Aug 1, 2020
Asian Journal of Social Science
The indigenous tea plant in Upper Assam was subjected to multilayered experiments where the 19th ... more The indigenous tea plant in Upper Assam was subjected to multilayered experiments where the 19th century British quest for scientific superiority resulted in a severe and prolonged rejection of it. The article argues that the continuous comparison of the Assamese variety with that of the Chinese was not just the consequence of science but also of racism inherent in it. Even after the successful cultivation of the indigenous variety which emerged as the sole means of rescuing Britain from the “vice like control of China” over tea, negligence toward it was not completely vanished. The article argues this point by locating it within the context of “tropical – temperate” dichotomy that the colonial science invented.
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, 2020
Background of the article: Across the world, the Tropical lands became scapegoat of Western imper... more Background of the article: Across the world, the Tropical lands became scapegoat of Western imperialism which resulted in drastic alterations of the relation between human and nature that led to the massive destruction of the indigenous, native way of being on earth. Armed with military force, modern scientific knowledge, bands of botanists, surgeons, military officers and missionaries; the imperialists thrived to order the wild nature with modern method of culture known as the Monoculture. Primitive tropical rainforests were felled in Malaysia, Indonesia for Rubber plantations; in Congo, Ghana for Coffee Plantation; in Cuba, Brazil, Argentina etc. for Sugar , in Myanmar; for rice , and in Malabar and Western Ghats of India for Eucalyptus; changing the lives of the forest people forever. The case of Tea, regarded by imperialist British as object more valuable than Gold, the National drink of 17, 18, 19 and 20 century England was the repetition of the same story of clash between west...
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Papers by Dibyanjoly Hazarika