Indian Tea Association
The Indian Tea Association is a trade association of Indian tea producers. The head office is in Kolkata (Calcutta).
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| Founded | 1881 |
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| Website | indiatea |
History
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
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References
- 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
- 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
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