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1815年,英国人完全控制了整个锡兰岛国,他们开始发展咖啡种植业。但1847年,英国发生金融危机,咖啡下降,许多种植园主开始寻找转变,茶树逐渐在锡兰站稳脚跟。1852年,泰勒来到锡兰,开始种植茶树。其他种植园主也开始纷纷效仿他的做法,到了1880年时,已经种植了40平方公里的茶树。茶叶种植需要大量苦力,泰米尔人成为主要的招募目标。前往种植园的旅途极为艰难。泰米尔人要乘坐小船横渡32公里长的保克海峡来到锡兰的西北部,然后再步行前往种植园。北部道路要穿越锡兰条件恶劣的丛林,那里疟疾横行,没有干净
In 1815, the British took complete control of the entire state of Ceylon and began to develop coffee farming. However, in 1847, a financial crisis occurred in the United Kingdom and coffee dropped. Many plantation owners began to search for a change. Tea trees gradually gained a firm foothold in Ceylon. In 1852, Taylor came to Ceylon and began planting tea trees. Other plantation owners began to follow suit, and by 1880 they had planted 40 square kilometers of tea trees. Tea cultivation requires a lot of coolies and the Tamils become the main target of recruitment. The journey to the plantation is extremely difficult. The Tamils take a boat across the 32-kilometer stretch of the Pankt Strait to the north-west of Ceylon, before walking to the plantation. The northern roads go through the jungles of Ceylon in harsh conditions, where malaria is rampant and not clean