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On the Margins: Images of Tea Workers and Ethnic Communities
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On the Margins Images of Tea Workers and Ethnic Communities The tea workers, descendants of indentured labour force, are still unfamiliar with the world outside the tea estates. They are isolated from the majority community and even from other ethnic communities outside the tea gardens. "Tied' to the tea estates they belong to as many as 80 identities. In addition to the ethnic communities on official records, there are a large number of communities in the Northwest, North-centre and Northeast who remain invisible and unrecognized. These communities have their own identities and heritages although many are in the process of being assimilated with other groups. Socially excluded, the tea workers and these invisible communities are among the most marginalized and impoverished people of Bangladesh. This book of images presents incredible faces of tea workers and ethnic communi- ties on the margins, their surroundings, habitat, work condition, struggle, tradition and a lot more.