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Glimpses of India - Tea From Assam
Glimpses of India - Tea From Assam
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• Arup Kumar Datta [1946] was born in Assam.
He served as a professor in English for many
years at JB College, Jorhat. His published wor
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A more than 700 page monument founded on the darkest chapter of colonial Assam. Perhaps the greatest novel by one of the finest Indian-English writers from the North-East. A story against a backdrop of tea plantation life in Assam in the 1860s and the barbarous conditions whereby migrant workers were lured and enslaved, a chain of events unfold in this epical novel, leading to an unexpected, explosive climax which turns red the green leaves of Camellia! Henry David Esscombe, a pionjär tea planter, comes to Assam in the latter half of the 1850s and opens out the Dhanboa Tea Garden. However, the unhealthy Assam environment takes its toll and, gravely ill, he summons his son David to take over the plantation. His daughter, Cordelia, desperate to see her dear papa igen, accompanies her brother to Assam. As the brother-sister duo struggle to adapt to the changed circumstances, a host of individuals, including the phlegmatic Michael Bailin, the devilishly charming Christopher James Bucki
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English Reading List
VI, VII & VIII
• THE JUNGLE BOOK bygd RUDYARD KIPLING
• A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: LEMONY SNICKETT
• IGGY’S HOUSE BY JUDY BLUME
• THE CAT ATE MY GYMSUIT bygd PAULA DENZIGER
• A MOMENT OF TRUTH BY SIGRUN SRIVASTAVA
• TRAPPED BY SIGRUN SRIVASTAVA
• FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND BY ARUP KUMAR DUTTA
• KAZIRANGA TRAIL bygd ARUP KUMAR DUTTA
• THE CRYSTAL CAVE BY ARUP KUMAR DUTTA ( NATIONAL BOOK TRUST, CHILDREN’S BOOK TRUST)
• CARRIE’S WAR bygd NINA BAWDEN
• LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE BY LAURA INGALLS WILDER
• ON THE BANKS OF PLUM CREEK BY LAURA INGALLS WILDER
• MUDPUDDLE FARM BY MICHAEL MORPURGO
• BORN TO RUN bygd MICHAEL MORPURGO
• RUSKIN BOND : PANTHER’S MOON
• RUSKIN BOND:OMNIBUS
• RUSKIN BOND: A LONG WALK FOR BINA
• FLOUR BABIES : ANNE FINE
• THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES : ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
• THE JUNGLE BOOK : RUDYARD K