Indian Tea Association
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| Founded | 1881 |
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| Location | |
| Website | indiatea |
The Indian Tea Association is a
head office is in Kolkata
(Calcutta).
History
The Association was founded in 1881 to protect the interests of
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
- ^ ISBN 0719063787.
- 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