It's the season finale, y'all! So it's time to investigate the history of the Desi diaspora's favorite symbol. Warning, it's not a warm, cozy story.
VISUALS
- The BBC investigation of an Assam plantation that you hear at the very end of the episode
- A map of Assam
GLOSSARY
- Pashmina: a Kashmiri shawl made of spun cashmere from the Changthangi goat
- Canton: known today as Guangzhou, Canton is a huge port city in China on the eastern bank of the Pearl River.
- Sharbat: a sweet cordial made from fruits or flowers, served cold.
MUSIC CREDITS
Wasn’t this episode a bop!? Check out the incredible artists:
- Charanjit Singh | Raga Bhairav
- Brain Drop I Brain Drop vs. Silent Horror
- FINGERGAP I 恭喜你
- Codec I Trap Bach
- Jamblu I Hypocrite Pt 1
- Aloo Gobi I Spicy
- Lifeform I Inert AI
DIG DEEPER
This episode covers 300 years, 3 commodities and 3 countries, so very understandable you wanna learn more. Here’s where to start:
- Andy Liu’s new book Tea War and Rolf Bauer’s new(ish) publication were in many ways the backbone of our research
- This NPR excerpt from Sarah Rose’s book on Robert Fortune’s tea theft is wild, captivating, and delicious
- Jayeeta Sharma provided a stunning analysis of how and why the British built a migrant workforce on the tea plantations of Assam in her paper “Lazy Natives”
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- See the annotated transcript with citations and timestamps.
- Visit www.kahaani.io/misrepresented for free curriculum to help you use this podcast in your classroom.
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