Historical Roots of the Crisis in the South Indian Tea Industry

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tharian George K.
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Tea Industry ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Indian Tea

scholarly journals Crisis and retirement

Focaal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (86) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Jayaseelan Raj
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Tea Industry ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Retired Workers

AbstractThe recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the crisis—deferred their service payout. This article seeks to understand the severe alienation of the retirees as they struggle to regain lost respect, kinship network, and everyday sociality in the plantations and beyond. I argue that the alienation produced through their dispossession as wage laborers and the discrimination as Tamil-speaking Dalit must be understood as an interrelated process, whereas the source of alienation cannot be reduced to production or categorical relations alone.

scholarly journals Rumour and gossip in a time of crisis: Resistance and accommodation in a South Indian plantation frontier

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayaseelan Raj
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tea Industry ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Effective Instrument ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
Indian Tea

This article examines rumour and gossip among the tea workers in the south Indian state of Kerala in the context of recent economic crisis in the Indian tea industry. It argues that gossip and rumour may have distinct effects with regard to resistance and accommodation in the crisis-ridden plantations. The analysis of the gossip shows that the workers are critical of the plantation management, trade unions and the Kerala state for failing to ensure their means of livelihood during the crisis period. In this context, gossip functions as a form and agent of resistance which further shows that the workers were conscious of their exploitation. On the other hand, the ethnographic data presented in this article suggest that rumour is an effective instrument for the control and disciplining of workers in the crisis context.

Crisis and retirement

Focaal ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jayaseelan Raj
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Tea Industry ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Retired Workers

The recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the crisis—deferred their service payout. This article seeks to understand the severe alienation of the retirees as they struggle to regain lost respect, kinship network, and everyday sociality in the plantations and beyond. I argue that the alienation produced through their dispossession as wage laborers and the discrimination as Tamil-speaking Dalit must be understood as an interrelated process, whereas the source of alienation cannot be reduced to production or categorical relations alone.

The Indian Tea Industry

1911 ◽  
Vol 72 (1859supp) ◽  
pp. 123-123
Author(s):  
Edward F. Harran
Keyword(s):  
Tea Industry ◽  
Indian Tea

scholarly journals Prevalence of the additional head of quadriceps femoris in the South Indian population: a cadaveric and radiological study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Femina Sam ◽  
Madhavi Kandagaddala ◽  
Ivan James Prithishkumar ◽  
Koyeli Mary Mahata ◽  
Mahasampath Gowri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Population ◽  
Vastus Lateralis ◽  
Femoral Nerve ◽  
Quadriceps Femoris ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
South Indian Population ◽  
The South ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Circumflex Femoral Artery ◽  
Vastus Intermedius

AbstractQuadriceps femoris is an extensor muscle in the anterior compartment of thigh and is traditionally taught to be composed of four heads. Recently, there is an increased interest in the occurrence of an additional muscle head of quadriceps femoris. But scientific knowledge regarding its incidence is lacking in the South Indian population. This study was done to confirm the presence of the additional head by routine anatomic dissection and radiological imaging techniques. Forty-one formalin fixed human cadaveric lower limbs were dissected and the morphology of the additional head was noted. Retrospective analysis of 88 MRI images of patients was done. The additional muscle head was present in 43.9% of the cadaveric lower limbs and was consistently located between the vastus lateralis and vastus intermedius. It originated from variable portions of the greater trochanter, intertrochanteric line, lateral lip of linea aspera and lateral surface of the shaft of femur and inserted either as a muscle belly or as an aponeurosis into the vastus intermedius (55.6%), vastus lateralis (22.2%) or directly into the base of the patella. It received its vascular supply from branches of the lateral circumflex femoral artery and was innervated by branches from the posterior division of the femoral nerve. In addition, the additional muscle head was identified by MRI and its incidence was reported to be 30.68% for the first time in living subjects. The result of this study provides additional information in understanding the morphology of the quadriceps femoris muscle.

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