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Nightmares of an Agricultural Capitalist Economy
This essay presents the findings of a detailed study, done in late 2014, of the conditions of tea estate workers in the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu. It attempts to place these findings in the context of larger debates over capitalist agriculture and current policy efforts to promote corporatisation and commercialisation of the sector.
The authors are grateful for the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation for the conduct of this study. An earlier draft of this paper was published on the Social Research Collective's website (https:// srcindia.wordpress.com/) in December 2014.