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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 ...
The East India Company (EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.
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 British started commercial tea plantations in India and in Ceylon: "In 1824 tea plants were discovered in the hills along the frontier between Burma and Assam. The British introduced tea culture into India in 1836 and into Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1867. At first they used seeds from China, but later seeds from the clonal Assam plant were used."
Kirkman campaigned actively against the monopoly of the East India Company and in 1813 legislation ended the company's monopoly of the India trade. In 1816, James Finlay & Co. sent out a shipment of goods and was the first merchant house in Scotland to open up direct connection with India, opening up a branch in Bombay.
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 East India Company held the first auction in Leadenhall Street. In 1834, after the East India Company went out of business, the auction was held on Mincing Lane . To the uninitiated a Tea sale appears to be a mere arena in which the comparative strength of the lungs of a portion of his Majesty´s subjects are to be tried.