The Birth of Assam’s Tea Industry. The first attempts to establish tea plantations in Assam were made in the early 19th century when the British East India Company aimed at ending China’s ...

Recognising his capabilities, the British appointed him as Dewan of the Assam Company Ltd, the tea company incorporated in London in 1839 with headquarters at Nazira near Sivasagar in eastern ...

Tea-plucking machines in India threaten Assam livelihoods. Published. 2 December 2012. Share. ... Spending the night in an old fashioned British Raj bungalow on a tea estate in Assam, ...

In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of ...

SILCHAR, India — There is a desperate edge to Vijay Singh’s optimism as he racks his brain for some marketing miracle to rescue Indian tea. What about getting Americans to drink it? They’re ...

Assam was imagined as an El Dorado by the British, with people writing about how they’d seen gold, indigo — and tea — there. When British consumers first tasted tea from India, they didn’t ...

Tea was exported from Assam to London in 1830s and clearly shows that we had tea before Britishers came to India. "The popularity of tea in India can be attributed to its low cost, medicinal ...

British tea, with its meticulous regiment, encapsulates a pastime savored in the quiet of drawing rooms and tearooms. Conversely, ... when The East India Company discovered the cousin to Chinese tea ...