Jayeeta Sharma's book - Empire's Garden- is a valuable summation of close archival reading, painstaking research and extensive scholarship on 19th century Assam . Building up on diverse sources - Government Reports and Memorandum , contemporary newspapers , memoirs , novels etc. relating to the period of her study , the reader is given a fluent account , that is structured without being jargon ridden or theoretically dense and abstract . It is a persuasive narrative , deserves close rea...