Indian Tea Association

Indian Tea Association
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Founded1881
Location
Websiteindiatea.org

The Indian Tea Association is a trade association of Indian tea producers. The head office is in Kolkata (Calcutta).

History

The association was founded in 1881 to protect the interests of tea planters in British India and to promote the consumption of Indian tea.[1]:96 It had offices in London and in India.[1]:96 It also laid down rules for the recruitment of labour for the plantations and in the early twentieth century attempted to raise the standards of treatment of labourers.[2]:75

References

  1. ^ a b Anandi Ramamurthy (2003). Imperial Persuaders: Images of Africa and Asia in British Advertising. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719063787.
  2. ^ Sarah Besky (2014). The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520957602.

Further reading


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