Emancipation Served Hot: A Comparative Analysis of Grassroots Feminist Activism in Indian and Kenyan Tea Plantations

Abstract

"Despite the gradual erosion of its colonial empire following World War II, Britain still sought to maintain its control over foreign land and labour in its South Asian and African colonies (Rappaport 343). Thus, India and Kenya, two of the largest global tea exporters, became a centre for Indian and Kenyan nationalist movements as they attempted to reclaim the agricultural sector that the British East India Company and the Imperial British East Africa Company helped pioneer (Rappaport 336). Still, post-colonial theory has scarcely compared the historical similarities in India’s and Kenya’s post-colonial agricultural economies"(p.97)