Indian_Tea_Association

Indian Tea Association

Indian Tea Association

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

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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 treatment of labourers.[2]: 75 

References

  1. [1]
    Anandi Ramamurthy (2003). Imperial Persuaders: Images of Africa and Asia in British Advertising. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719063787.
  2. [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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