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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 ...
Maniram Dutta Baruah, popularly known as Maniram Dewan (17 April 1806 – 26 February 1858), was an Assamese nobleman in British India.He was one of the first people to establish tea gardens in Assam.
India's tea industry is the fourth largest in the world, producing $709,000,000 worth of tea. [13] As of 2013 the consumption of green tea in India was growing by over 50% a year. [14] The major tea-producing states in India are: Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Sikkim, Nagaland. [15]
Tea Board of India's Head Office at B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata. The Tea Board of India is a state agency of the Government of India under the control of Ministry of Commerce and Industry, established to promote the cultivation, processing, and domestic trade as well as export of tea from India.
Dadabhai Naoroji formed the East India Association in 1867 and Surendranath Banerjee founded the Indian National Association in 1876. The Congress was founded in 1885 by Indian and British members of the Theosophical Society movement, including Scotsman Allan Octavian Hume . [ 2 ]
The Tea-garden community is a term for a multiethnic, multicultural group of tea garden workers and their descendants in Northeast India (formerly the Assam province).They are primarily concentrated in the modern state of Assam, where they have been notified as Other Backward Classes (OBC) and are loosely referred to as Tea Tribes.
An agreement was reached between the Assam Chief Minister Gopinath Bordoloi, INTUC and the Indian Tea Association (ITA). INTUC promised the plantation owners not to engage in 'disruptive' union activism whilst Indian Tea Association promised INTUC free access to organising in the tea gardens. Through this agreement with the tea plantation ...
The Indian Association was the first avowed nationalist organization founded in British India by Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose in 1876. [1] The objectives of this Association were "promoting by every legitimate means the political, intellectual and material advancement of the people".