Question
Specific term required. Anti-mui tsai campaigns in Hong Kong and Malaya sought to replace enslaved bondmaids with these servants, who often came from Goa. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these colonial governesses and maids who were often abandoned to their namesake poor home in Hackney. Mary Frere’s book Old Deccan Days collects bedtime stories from one of them named Anna Liberata de Souza.
ANSWER: ayahs [or amahs; or variants such as yaya, ā mā, aia, Amme, or avia; accept under-ayahs; accept Ayahs’ Home]
[10e] Ayahs received passports to travel from this crop’s plantations in highland Ceylon. The British brought Adivasi migrants to this crop’s estates in North Bengal, Assam, and Darjeeling.
ANSWER: tea [or chai or chá; or Camellia sinensis; accept Darjeeling tea or other specific varieties; prompt on Camellia]
[10m] Former British tea gardens were often unrepresented by panchayat councils, which replaced political parties under this kingdom’s ruler Mahendra. The Raj recruited ayahs and tea pickers from this kingdom’s Rana dynasty.
ANSWER: Nepal [or Kingdom of Nepal or Nepal Adhirajya; accept Gorkha Kingdom] (Reforms in the 1990s incorporated North Bengal’s tea gardens into the panchayati raj system.)
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