Tea Plantation In India History. It contains theine and when added to boiling water along with sugar and milk, it gives a very cheap and stimulating drink. At our ordinary meetings every day we took only thay, which is commonly used all over the indies, not only among those of the country, but also among the dutch and the english, who take it as a drug that cleanses the stomach, and digests the superfluous humours, by a temperate heat particular thereto.
[1] the first recorded reference to tea in india was in the ancient epic of the ramayana , when hanuman was sent to the himalayas to bring the sanjeevani tea plant for medicinal use. The assam tea company introduced ''indentured labor'' system in this region and with the local inhabitants as workers. The committee issued a circular asking for information on areas suitable for tea cultivation and sent its secretary mr.
Kerkhoven planted gambung plantation, west java.
With lovely lush greenery around, conoor would be your best bet to start with. Later in 1844 this garden was sold to assam tea company which had been formed in 1839. Christie was the first to explore the potential of tea plantations in the nilgiri in 1832. Though the extent of the popularity of tea in ancient india is unknown, it is known that the tea plant was a wild plant in india that was indeed brewed by local inhabitants of different regions.
