DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2017.v05i08.025

Pages: 985-989

This paper examines the socio-economic and political situation of the tea garden labourers in Assam. The tea garden labourers were migrated from various places of India to work in Assam tea plantations during the colonial as well as post-independent period. Nowadays, the tea garden labourers are settled down permanently in various areas of Assam tea gardens as well as the other parts of the state of Assam. Therefore, this article highlights the labourers‟ condition and unionization and movements from colonial and post-independent period-till date in tea plantations of Assam.