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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023234515#page/n7/mode/2up ''A tea planter's life in Assam''] by George M Barker 1884. Archive.org. With seventy five illustrations by the author.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023234515#page/n7/mode/2up ''A tea planter's life in Assam''] by George M Barker 1884. Archive.org. With seventy five illustrations by the author.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianteaitscul00baldgoog#page/n7/mode/2up ''Indian Tea, its Culture & Manufacture''] by Claud Bald 1907. Archive.org (One of the books on the reading list in the Fibis Article mentioned above).


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 19:59, 22 February 2010

See also Tea

Fibis Resources

  • FIBIS Journal no 9 contains an article entitled "Jokai Tea Estates" by Dick Barton. This also contains a useful reading list.

Historical books

  • Article Industrial Resources of British India contains a section on tea Google Books 1863

Taylor’s Maps of the following Tea Districts, Darjeeling, Terai, Jalpaiguri and Dooars, Darrang, Golaghat, Jorhat Nowgong, Sibsagar, Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Cachar, Sylhet, with complete Index to all Tea Gardens, published 1910

  • Old times in Assam by T Kinney 1896 Archive.org A tea planter’s life in the early 1860’s. Reprints from columns in the Englishman and Indian Planters’ Gazette.

External links

  • Koi-Hai a site for those who lived and worked in North East India, particularly in the Tea industry. Includes articles, list of relevant books, photos, some grave inscriptions, tourism information
  • Very interesting and detailed interviews of many aspects of the life and work of a tea planter. Travancore State, Calcutta, Darjeeling, N.W.F.P. Recorded by A.S. Robertson and his son, A.F. Robertson (1976 and 1979) from University of Cambridge - Centre of South Asian Studies. Listen to the interviews, or read the transcripts.
  • Tea Planter in Bengal a posting from the rootsweb India mailing list archives giving advice and information on researching Tea Planters .