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SPECIAL ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Tea Plantations and Socio-Cultural Magar and Kar. Space and Culture, India 2016, 4:1 Page | 25 DOI: 10.20896/saci.v4i1.188 SPECIAL ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Tea Plantations and Socio-Cultural Transformation: The Case of Assam, India Chandra Kala Magar†*and Bimal Kumar KarῙ Abstract The tea plantations of Assam, which constitute the country’s 53.97 per cent tea area, 49 per cent tea worker population, and 52.04 per cent tea production, occupy an important place in the economy, culture and polity of the state. The onset of tea plantations during British colonial rule has not only changed the landscape of the upper Brahmaputra valley through green tea bushes being nourished by tea tribes from east-central India, but also evolved a distinct tea culture. Although formation of small tea growers has added a new dimension to the growth of tea industry of Assam in recent times, the culture that emerged due to the long continued interaction of British planters, tea worker tribes and indigenous Assamese is well reflected in the language, way of life, work culture, food habits and many other socio-cultural practices in most of the large tea estates in the state. In fact, the impact of tea culture is so penetrative that it has been able to bring about development in the form of tea festival, tea tourism, tea folk songs and dances, etc. in the state. An attempt is made in this paper to explore the role of tea plantation and the people associated with it to the socio-cultural transformation of Assam based on both secondary data and primary data through field study. The primary data have been collected from selected tea estates, tea garden worker colonies, tea-tribe villages and urban dwellers. Key words: Tea Plantation, Tea Tribes, Tea Culture, Ethnography, Interviews, Assam, India. †Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, B.Borooah College, Guwahati, Assam, India, Email: [email protected] *Corresponding Author ῙHead, Department of Geography, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India, Email: [email protected] ©2016 Magar and Kar. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Magar and Kar. Space and Culture, India 2016, 4:1 Page | 26 DOI: 10.20896/saci.v4i1.188 Introduction upper and central Assam than lower Assam. Tea occupies a very intricate place in the This population today constitutes about 20 per economy and lives of the people of Assam as it cent of the total population of Assam and their not only has the largest acreage under tea long going socio-cultural interactions and contributing to more than half of tea produced assimilations with the greater Assamese society in India, but it is also quite popular all over as has added a new dimension not only to the breakfast and evening drink. It is not only used growth of tea industry but also to the culture of as refreshment during our day-to-day life but is Assam which is well reflected in the language, also consumed at social events and many way of life, work culture, food habits and many formal ceremonies have been created for tea. other socio-cultural practices in most of the large tea estates. Though few works on tea Tea culture in Assam is very rich as it involves all the intricate activities related to tea right industry in Assam have so far been taken up from tea production and its history of origin to (Baruah, 2008; Sengupta, 2009; Kurmi, 2007; tea brewing, tea arts and ceremony, tea festival 2010), yet, there has not been any remarkable and all the health aspects including the simple in depth study of the tea tribe community and process of preparation to consumption of tea. its socio-cultural transformation, and therefore, Further, the impact of growing tea tribe the present study bears significance. population along with the continued socio- Background cultural interaction, and embracement with the Socio-cultural transformation is a highly host community has had significant bearing in complex, dynamic and universal process. The forming the present social fabric of the greater change may be termed as endogenous, if the Assamese society. With this background and force enables from within the social structure with the help of primary and secondary data, or exogenous, if they arise due to forces the present study assesses the role of tea in impinging on society from outside. These various spheres of life and the socio-cultural structural changes can be in terms of transformation of the people associated with it. demographic, familial, stratificational, The history of tea in India began with the economic and political spheres of the society plantations of tea in the lowlands of Assam (Yamamoto, 1999). Historically, the society of during the late 1930s by the British after its Assam has been continuously subject to socio- discovery by Robert Bruce and Maniram Dewan cultural change due to the influx of outsiders as in the hills of Assam. Today, due to the recent well as due to the internal growth of the inclusion of small tea growers the tea population. One such influx of population plantations in Assam have grown and occurred when the British started the tea mushroomed to such an extent that it has plantations in Assam in 1837 and recruited become one of the largest tea growing regions huge number of cheap, hard pressed and of the world producing 52.04 per cent of India’s illiterate labourers (Money, 1883) belonging to tea, constituting 53.97 per cent of the country’s lower and downtrodden communities such as tea area and providing employment to 49 per Santhal, Munda, Oraon, Khond, etc. from cent of the tea worker population. Further, the famine and poverty-stricken areas of Bihar, tea tribe population being extremely diverse in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, terms of religious and linguistic composition, is Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal having intricately associated with tea plantation, diversity in respect of their language, tradition, processing and production, and bears immense culture, religion and social background on false significance to the socio-culture and economy promises such as higher wages, better life, of Assam. They are mostly rural in nature, live better living conditions and at the end of in almost every district of Assam, and their contract period they would be free to go (Guha, density varies according to the number of tea 1977). plantations. Hence they are more numerous in Magar and Kar. Space and Culture, India 2016, 4:1 Page | 27 After the discovery of tea in Assam in 1823 by Taking these backgrounds into account, this Robert Bruce and the success of the first study is taken up to present the origin and experimental tea estate in Chabua, Dibrugarh, growth of tea plantations in Assam, to there was a tremendous growth of the tea understand their socio-cultural transformation industry in Assam during the last three decades with regard to tea drinking pattern, dietary of the 19th century due to the continuing system and to analyse the transformation and immigration of cheap labour force, rising diffusion of the tea workers’ community in the demand of British for Indian tea, easy state and their relationships with greater availability of large tracts of cheap virgin lands Assamese society. 1 due to Wasteland Rules and opening up of Database and Methodology auction centres in different parts of India. Further, the inclusion of small tea growers The study is based on research conducted using during the 1980s enhanced the growth, interviews, ethnography and archival research. production and spatial distribution of the tea The necessary archival data have been obtained gardens so much so that today among all the from sources such as statistical handbooks, states of India, Assam is the major producer ABITA (Assam Branch Indian Tea Association) and grower of tea (52.04 per cent of production centre, government offices, Tea Board of India, and over 53.97 per cent of area) in the country etc. Primary data have been collected through (Tea Statistics, 2014). schedule-cum-questionnaire interviews by personally visiting the selected tea estates and The new plantation economy which was their surrounding areas towards understanding enslaved by foreign capital and immigrant the tea production processes and associated usury brought about a radical transformation issues, and socio-economic conditions of the within the local society itself by modernising tea garden workers. The data collected are the fast-growing sectors such as plantations, processed and analysed using appropriate coal mines, oil fields and transport and statistical techniques. Necessary map and communication on one hand and the overall suitable tables have been prepared by using multi-structured economy on the other (Guha, appropriate cartographic techniques to 1977). However, the most significant of all illustrate a clear exposition of the problem. these phenomena is the culture that emerged due to the long continued socio-cultural The Study Area exchange, interactions and assimilations With a total area of 78,438 sq.km, Assam is between the British planters, the indigenous located in the hot and humid monsoon region Assamese society and the tea tribes. These can of tropical latitudes (24.3°N to 28°N) and be well interpreted in the tea drinking habits eastern longitudes (89.5°to 96.1°E), and is and food habits, language, way of life, work bordered on the north and east by Arunachal culture, and many other socio-cultural practices Himalayas, on the south by Meghalaya Plateau in most of the large tea estates in the state. In and hills of Patkai-Manipur-Arakan Yoma fact, the impact of tea culture is so penetrative (Figure 1).
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