(University of North Bengal, 2016-03) Sarkar, Monoranjan
This article is aimed to examine the spread of malaria disease and its socio-environment
impact in the tea plantations area of Jalpaiguri district in colonial India. In recent times
there are so many scholars who have studied the environment and health of colonial
Bengal, unfortunately, missed Jalpaiguri as their study area or though mentioned only an
or few lines on it. Hence present article proposes to examine a detailed study in this
theme. The source materials are exclusively collected from the different literary texts,
reports, statistical accounts etc. composed by the colonial officers and that of 'the
indigenous writers; some of the original sources of have been collected from the officials
of different Tea Estates and West Bengal State Achieves.
