Summary Of Sarah Besky's 'Darjeeling Distinction'

Sarah Besky in Darjeeling Distinction describes the ways women on post-colonial plantations are still “stuck in bushes, colonialism and paternalism”, being exploited by the capitalistic economic system which constitutes the continuation of colonialism in the modern globalized world. Much like in the colonial era, the tea production in the twenty first century yields enormous profits for owners since they hire cheap labor in the global south and export the tea worldwide. The workers on the plantation “thickly” reproduce inherited colonial past in the present partly due to the objective reasons such as the lack of other jobs in Darjeeling. However, the continuation of colonialism is facilitated by the sustaining tripartite economy since the female