All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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"Tropical Aggregation of Labour?" Contested territories in the tea plantation enclaves in colonial Bengal, India
| The tea plantations in Bengal have been understood as enclaves within a peasant society. Though the tea estates of Duars, north Bengal were formally held in thirty year leases from the British Government, in practice the colonial state intervened little in the management of the vast areas of the tea plantations. The largely European managers and assistant managers controlled the workers’ labour and their bodies, in fact if not in law; and the dwellings of the coolie lines were provided, too, by the estate management itself. When it came to prophylactic action against malaria, however, there were long-standing disputes between the local government, the estate management and the external medical specialists about both the causes of hyper endemicity in the area and the policies to counter them. I would argue that the policies that were eventually devised to battle malaria in the tea estates were not implemented at the estate level due to various local factors. These included the exigencies of the local self government in the region, colonial forest and revenue policies and the economies of the plantation system . Further, while there “controlled” experimentsto locate anopheline carriers and conduct anti larval operations in some tea estates, there were no sustained efforts to use the knowledge gained from the experiments on a wider basis within the tea plantations in north Bengal. Thus while the tea plantations provided a space that was in some senses ideal for anti malarial research in colonial Bengal, and thereby enriched medical knowledge, the transmission of this knowledge into public health policies did not occur.
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