02033nam a22002417a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801410007608200150021710000180023224500470025026000590029730000230035636500090037952011520038865000160154065000150155665000300157170000170160194200090161899900170162795201470164420261103115255.0261103b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780520277397  a: International Book Distributorsb: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New delhic: 123274d: 29/10/2026  a338.17 BES  aBesky, Sarah.  aThe Darjeeling Distinctionc/ Sarah Besky.  aBerkeley b: University of California Press,c , 2014.  axx, 233p.c: 24cm.  b1997  aNestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is also home to a violent movement for regional autonomy that, like the tea industry, dates back to the days of colonial rule.

In this nuanced ethnography, Sarah Besky narrates the lives of tea workers in Darjeeling. She explores how notions of fairness, value, and justice shifted with the rise of fair-trade practices and postcolonial separatist politics in the region. This is the first book to explore how fair-trade operates in the context of large-scale plantations.

Readers in a variety of disciplines—anthropology, sociology, geography, environmental studies, and food studies—will gain a critical perspective on how plantation life is changing as Darjeeling struggles to reinvent its signature commodity for twenty-first-century consumers. The Darjeeling Distinction challenges fair-trade policy and practice, exposing how trade initiatives often fail to consider the larger environmental, historical, and sociopolitical forces that shape the lives of the people they intended to support.  a Tea trade   aDarjeeling  aLabor and Justice on Fair  aSarah Besky.  cBOOK  c70950d70950  00102ddc4070aSNULbSNULd2026-11-03eInternational Book Distributorsg1997.00l0o338.17 BESp31968r2026-11-03 11:53:09w2026-11-03yBOOK