Transcending the realm of local politics and culture, the ethnography reveals the multilayered, multispatial, colonial dimension of gendered labour.
By providing a historical account of the tea industry in India, Chatterjee reveals the intricate link between colonialism and the gendered division of labour in North Bengalese plantations.
Coming from a Global South perspective, she demonstrates the intersectionality of gender, class and race, as mutually constitutive mechanisms of oppression.
Piya Chatterjee is a historical anthropologist with a current position at the University of California as a women's studies assistant professor.
[9] Her research is focused on the theories of pedagogy and what education means across borders, from her University classroom to villages in post-colonial India.