Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
Considering that about 1.2 million workers who have inhabited tea plantations for generations and contributed to its economy have been denied rights over their homestead land. By forcing them to reside inside the plantations, planters have been able to control their work, work schedules and monitor their lives; Considering that in tea plantations, ‘housing’ becomes an instrument of control rather than entitlement; Considering that tea workers are mostly adivasis and dalits who were brought to the plantations as indentured labourers during the colonial period and have been kept along with families in a state of virtual bondage for decades by the tea planters
