The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf Naga diary on his return to Nagaland, 1970

caption: neglected tea estate
medium: diaries
location: Jabaka T.G. (Joboka T.G.)
date: 25.8.1970
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 12.8.1970-9.9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: Soon after we entered a tea estate (Jobaka Estate) and I was surprised to see how neglected the plantations were; - straggly bushes, surrounded by weeds. Yet it seems to be still worked, and there are some inhabited coolie-lines.
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