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This talk provides a critical reflection on ‘development regimes’ in colonial India. It does so by focusing on the operational logic, ideological inconsistencies, and material fallout of the tea plantation economy of colonial Assam: a large-scale commercial enterprise that induced transformative changes to the region’s biosocial landscape for a century and more. Unlike existing works on this subject, however, this talk focuses on agro-econo