Tea Plantation Workers in a Himalayan Region

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Tea Plantation Workers in a Himalayan Region is a pioneering work. It is about the only tea garden of Sikkim named Temi Tea Estate.

The book portrays the nature of Hindu-Tribal relationship in the industrial environment of tea industry and the changes Occurring in the socio-cultural and economic life of the workers during the last thirty years of its establishment in1968. The garden is found to be the Hindu- Buddhist contact zone of Sikkim. Temi reflects the industrial image of the State of Sikkim.

KHEMRAJ SHARMA (b. 1957) earned his M.A. (Sociology and Social Anthropology) and Ph.D. from the University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, West Bengal. He is working as Education Officer in Central Board for Workers' Education, Ministry of Labour, Government of India since 1987. His areas of specialisation are Industrial Relations, Industrial Sociology of plantation in East/North India and Himalayan society. He has already three books to his credit, viz., Socio-Economic Life of Cinchona Plantation Workers in India (1997), The Tea Industry in India: An Introduction (1999) and The Himalayan Tea Plantation Workers (2000). Besides, he has contributed more than twenty-five academic articles to various edited books on Social Anthropology and to the National Journal of Central Board for Workers' Education, Nagpur. Presently, he is engaged on a Sociological Study on the Nepalese Tea Plantation Workers of North-East India.

The process of industrial development in the state of Sikkim is a post eighties phenomenon. Prior to 1975, Sikkim was an independent separate country under the protection of Government of India. With the merger of Sikkim in 1975 with the Indian Union, the concept of industrialisation through the small- scale industries suitable to the Sikkimese ecology started in Sikkim. Among the small scale industries, the then infant tea industry of Temi of South Sikkim also attracted the attention of the Government of Sikkim. Thus, industrialising Temi called for the introduction of a manufacturing factory in 1977 at Temi Tea Estate. After the establishment of a factory, the industrialisation process having specific goals of the organisation to the customers world, the tea industry evolved into a full flazed form.

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