Making Tea, Making Empire: Social Reproduction of Workers in Colonial Assam

Date: 

Monday, February 24, 2020, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Library (Conference Room 125)

Tithi Bhattacharaya, Professor of South Asian History and the Director of Global Studies at Purdue University, will present at at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Workshop on "Making Tea, Making Empire: Social Reproduction of Workers in Colonial Assam."

Graduate Student Commentator:
Swarnabh Ghosh, PhD Candidate in Architecture and Urban Planning, Harvard Design School  

Faculty Commentator:
Norberto Ferraras, Visiting Fellow, WIGH; Professor of American History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

The precirculated seminar paper is available by request to wigh@fas.harvard.edu