Author:

Sambhu Nath Mandal
Independent Research Scholar
Department of History
University of North Bengal
Darjeeling, West Bengal,India
Email: sambhunath1249@gmail.com

Abstract:: Historical scholarships have been engaged in the last few decades to explore the nature of the labour and freedom movement in the colonial period. The present work explores the linkages between tea garden labour knowledge and colonial power using both archival and literary sources; it also explores the role of labour and its socio-economic and environmental impact in the tea plantations area of Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling district specialty in Dooars tea garden areas in colonial India. Mainstream studies on colonial tea garden labour contribution of freedom movement missed Jalpaiguri and northern part of North Bengal other district being in the Bengal borderland. Therefore, the present article proposes to examine a detailed study of Northern district during colonial rule on the colonial policies. The source materials are exclusively collected from, colonial reports, statistical accounts, DPA reports, and the different literary texts composed by the colonial officers and the indigenous writers; some of the original records have been collected from the officials of different Tea Estates.

Key Words:: Adibasi, Ecology, Economy, Politics, Society, North Bengal, Tea Garden etc.