It's the season finale, y'all! So it's time to investigate the history of the Desi diaspora's favorite symbol. Warning, it's not a warm, cozy story. 

VISUALS

 

GLOSSARY

  • Pashmina: a Kashmiri shawl made of spun cashmere from the Changthangi goat
  • Canton: known today as Guangzhou, Canton is a huge port city in China on the eastern bank of the Pearl River.
  • Sharbat: a sweet cordial made from fruits or flowers, served cold.

 

MUSIC CREDITS

Wasn’t this episode a bop!? Check out the incredible artists:

 

DIG DEEPER

This episode covers 300 years, 3 commodities and 3 countries, so very understandable you wanna learn more. Here’s where to start:

  • Andy Liu’s new book Tea War and Rolf Bauer’s new(ish) publication were in many ways the backbone of our research
  • This NPR excerpt from Sarah Rose’s book on Robert Fortune’s tea theft is wild, captivating, and delicious
  • Jayeeta Sharma provided a stunning analysis of how and why the British built a migrant workforce on the tea plantations of Assam in her paper “Lazy Natives”

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

 

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MISREPRESENTED is produced by Kahaani, a media organization that tells stories to widen the historical narrative.

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