“…He makes this observation in relation to the development of egalitarian ideology among plantation workers based on "equality of men on the basis of human-ness" (ibid: 414). The importance of egalitarian relations and solidarity within the working class in the stratified class order of the agrarian capitalist/industrial system has been ethnographically captured by anthropologists in various contexts (Jayawardena, 1963(Jayawardena, , 1968, in the case of British Guyanese plantations; Mayer, 1961, in Fijian Plantations;Parry, 1999, andStrümpell, 2008, in industrial settings in central India). Among South Asian plantation workers, a particular moral egalitarian society was a major factor in mediating the capitalist system of tea production which was organized around a specific sexual division of labour (For Sri Lankan Plantations, see Daniel, 1996;Jayawardena & Kurian, 2015;Philips, 2005; For northeast Indian plantations, see Chatterjee, 2001;Chaudhuri, 2013;Besky, 2014).…”