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The Currency That Never Left the Garden

For close to a century Assam's tea gardens paid workers in coin they struck themselves, brass discs and pressboard chits that were wages inside the fence and worthless the moment you carried them past it.

The Investigation That Found Almost Nothing Happened

The tea tribes who pick Assam's tea today descend from the same colonial labour system that once sent thousands of workers walking home in protest. The government's own inquiry into what happened when they tried found almost nothing wrong. No one has ever certified how many died.