ROLE OF COLONIAL PRESENCE IN INDIAN TEA PLANTATION INDUSTRY IN ASSAM AND DARJEELINGThe William Pitts India Act of 1784 gave the crowned the power to guide the policy of India with as little possible means of corrupt influence, which in effect established a concrete link between the actions of the East India Company and the approval of the royal government. Because the products of the East India Company were considered “necessary” returns for public funds and the trust placed in the common fund. actions, Parliament was responsible for raising the funds needed to finance trade, the company's power to authorize letters and legislate granted the company sovereign authority over many Indian provinces. The new rule of the East India Company served as a precedent for later tea plantation under the name of the Assam Company and for companies that used methods of manipulation and profit, the accumulation of personal wealth was a primary intention. In 1834, the Waste Land Rules were enacted to allow land granted by the government to be free of revenue for 20 years. Legislation marginalized Indian workers and peasants, the cycle of debt and dependency chained workers to a life of exploitation. The essential feature of plantation law, particularly in the early stages of its development, was to regulate the contracts between planters and laborers by which the latter were bound. under penalty of penalty; working for the former for a certain time, the aim of the legislation was to guarantee the planters the services of their recruits as well as a secure hold on the workers. The most striking examples of exploitation are in the area of ​​labor recruitment, as the underlying objective sought to keep labor costs as low as possible in order to increase profits and staff...... middle of paper ...... were a vital necessity for female workers, but with the abolition of this law, some of them these concessions were withdrawn. Rana Pratap Behal in his work “Wage structure and labor in Assam Valley Tea Plantation” expresses the fact that the variation between the wages of men and women was totally arbitrary and discriminatory, women and children were paid less, working hours the work was the same for men and women, plus women did most of the types of work done by men like hoeing and even pruning, in fact female workers even specialized in picking, plus it There were no complaints either in official histories or in The Indian Trade Association reports that women do less work than men. It therefore appears that the variation between men's and women's wages was created solely on the basis of conventional values ​​of gender discrimination...