Tea Plantation

Historical books

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

• The British Library has the following book in its catalogue:

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.

• A tea planter's life in Assam by George M Barker 1884. Archive.org. With seventy five illustrations by the author.

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 .

• Business records relating to tea companies in the Guildhall Library, London. It seems likely these companies are ones registered in the U.K.

• Old Indian Photos has pictures of Assam and tea