Voices from the Fields: A Phenomenological Exploration of Adivasi Women’s Live Experiences in Tea plantation Assam, India

Daradi Gogoi and Dr. Karabi Konch
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Daradi Gogoi: Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya, Nagaon (Assam)
Dr. Karabi Konch: Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya, Nagaon (Assam)

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2025, vol. 9, issue 6, 5959-5970

Abstract: This article intends to explore the appearance of everyday lived experiences of tea garden women, with a particular focus on the intersection of their roles within the private and public spheres. Women are displayed as an icon of tea plantation and the most potential work force in the industry. Despite being important participations, women are victims and worst sufferers in their work in both public as well as private speeches of life. The tea garden labourers in Assam branded as the tea tribes, usually known as Adivasi live a ghettoized life in tea garden. Women in tea plantations are the most vulnerable ones who are exploited to both close as well as open structure of patriarchal discourse. The research article attempts to understanding the factors associated of women violence and examine the in depth phenomenological inquiry of lived realities of Adivasi women labourers from the meniscus of Raewyn Connell theory of Hegemonic Masculinity. Violent metaphors are often undesirable participations therefore such experience tends to stay of mind forever. A person who experiences and victims of traumatic events in remembering such experiences all the time to defeating their disgrace, shame and self regard. This article focuses on the narratives of women labourers in tea plantation for steeping in challenges to manipulate with everyday life. The purpose of the conclusion is trying to propose women are targeted the circumstances of violence and victims of gender discrimination and gender relation through the lived realities in tea plantations.

Date: 2025
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