ABSTRACT
Humour in Assam’s tea gardens can be understood as a weapon for the labourers. The purpose of this chapter is to examine how successfully we read, interpret and understand the everyday forms of resistance of the subordinates in the tea gardens. This chapter will explore humour as a method that allows the plantation labourers to speak and resist on their own terms. Thus, how can we study the subjective experiences of a tea garden labourer when he/she is making a strategic move in the presence of the powerful sahib/babus/sardars through the weapon of humour? This chapter also examines the everyday power relation that exits inside the cha bagans of Assam.
