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Khemraj Sharma (b. 1957) earned his M.A. (Sociology and Social Anthropology) and Ph.D. from the University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, West Bengal. He is working as Education Officer in Central Board for Workers’ Education, Ministry of Labour, Government of India since 1987. his areas of specialization are Industrial Relations, Industrial Sociology of plantation in East/North India and Himalayan society. He has already three books to his credit, viz., Socio-Economic Life of Cinchona Plantation Workers in India (1997), The Tea Industry in India: An Introduction (1999) and the Himalayan Tea Plantation Workers (2000). Besides, he has contributed more than twenty-five academic articles to various edited books on Social Anthropology and to the National Journal of Central Board for Workers’ Education, Nagpur. Presently, he is engaged on a Sociological Study on the Nepalese Tea Plantation Workers of North-East India.