Gender, Space and Identity: Women Narratives and Interpretations, Tea Gardens, North Bengal

Plantation space is the most significant one and central to women workers’ interest, as these women are trans-generationally emigrant workforce since the inception of plantation economy till present, and lost their connection from their native roots/origin of the community, resulting into perceiving ‘plantation setting’ not only as economic but also as their social space. Therefore, both intersection of their attachment to social and economic space grew simultaneously. Hence when, economic space was challenged by closure and severe sickness of gardens/plants as economic production of space, it impacted on their social space as well their narratives’ substantiate the same through, a collective sense of suffering and belonging, especially in ‘gendered’ ways (as women).