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The British East India Company began large-scale production of tea in Assam in the early 1820s. The first tea crops grown there were of a variety traditionally brewed by the Singpho people. [1] In 1826, the East India Company took over control of the region in the Treaty of Yandabo. In 1837, the first British tea garden was established at ...
In 1833, after its monopoly on the Chinese tea trade ended, the East India Company decided to establish major tea plantations in India. Lord William Bentinck established the Tea Committee on 1 February 1834 towards achieving this goal. The committee sent out circulars asking about the suitable places for tea cultivation, to which Captain F ...
The East India Company's merchant mark consisted of a "Sign of Four" atop a heart within which was a saltire between the lower arms of which were the initials "EIC". This mark was a central motif of the East India Company's coinage [103] and forms the central emblem displayed on the Scinde Dawk postage stamps. [104]
According to the National Park Service, "in 1773 (the British Parliament) granted the struggling East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in North America. The Tea Act made East India Tea ...
In 1826, the British East India Company took over the region from the Ahom kings through the Treaty of Yandabo. In 1837, the first English tea garden was established at Chabua in Upper Assam; in 1840, the Assam Tea Company began the commercial production of tea in the region, run by indentured servitude of the local inhabitants. Beginning in ...
His most famous accomplishment was the successful introduction, although it was not the first by any means, of Chinese tea plants (Camellia sinensis), along with skilled tea makers, from China to India in 1848 on behalf of the British East India Company. Robert Fortune worked in China for several years in the period from 1843 to 1861.
The East India Company Act 1813 (53 Geo. 3. c. c. 155), also known as the Charter Act 1813 , was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that renewed the charter issued to the British East India Company , and continued the Company's rule in India .
The main commodity, which promised considerable profits to merchants, was Chinese tea. Carried on old ships, [2] it sometimes stayed on the road for 12 months, damp and saturated with the smells of the hold, moldy and rotten, because of which it lost quality and its price fell. In 1834, the East India Company lost