Indian Tea Association

Indian Tea Association
	File:Indian Tea Association logo.jpg
Founded	1881
Location	Kolkata; Guwahati; Jorhat; Tezpur; Dibrugarh; Binnaguri; Silchar; Bagdogra; Darjeeling; ;
Website	indiatea.org

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

History[edit]

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[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Anandi Ramamurthy (2003). Imperial Persuaders: Images of Africa and Asia in British Advertising. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719063787.
↑ 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[edit]

Social perspective of labour legislation in India 1859–1932: As applied to tea plantations (1987) by Ramkrishna Chattopadhyay
The early history of the Tea industry in North-East India (1918) by Harold Mann
The Tea industry in India :A Review of Finance and Labour, and a guide for Capitalists and Assistants (1882) by Samuel Baildon
Tea Planter's Life in Assam (1884) by George Barker
The Recollections of a Tea Planter (1937) by W M Fraser
Indian Tea Association
ITA to promote Tea
ABITA implements Social Welfare schemes in Assam with UNICEF

[anandi-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Anandi Ramamurthy (2003). Imperial Persuaders: Images of Africa and Asia in British Advertising. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719063787.

[sarah-2] Sarah Besky (2014). The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520957602.

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