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====Historical books online====
====Historical books online====
*''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Coffee-Planter in Ceylon to his cousin in London'' by Sampson Brown. ''Simmond's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, Volumes 10 and 11'' 1847.  Google Books and Hathi Trust. First published as a book in Colombo 1845 (109 pages), available at the [[British Library]].  [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA13 Page 13], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA150 page 150], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA323 page 323], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA376 page 376], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=22 page 14], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=163 page 155], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=406 page 401]
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WBYAAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=coffe+southern+india#v=onepage&q=&f=false  ''A Handbook to coffee planting in Southern India''] by John Short (1864). Particularly useful for its list of coffee planters on the Shevaroy and Niligiri Hills and descriptions of these estates (pages 164-176) Google Books
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WBYAAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=coffe+southern+india#v=onepage&q=&f=false  ''A Handbook to coffee planting in Southern India''] by John Short (1864). Particularly useful for its list of coffee planters on the Shevaroy and Niligiri Hills and descriptions of these estates (pages 164-176) Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fYJIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Coffee: its physiology, history, and cultivation adapted as a work of reference for Ceylon, Wynaad, Coorg and The Neilgherries''] by Edmund C.P. Hull 1865 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fYJIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Coffee: its physiology, history, and cultivation adapted as a work of reference for Ceylon, Wynaad, Coorg and The Neilgherries''] by Edmund C.P. Hull 1865 Google Books
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*The Path to the Hills: History of the Plantations on Western Ghats. Tea Coffee and Rubber. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:mb4CNqQRCP4J:www.stayhomz.com/history.pdf+%22Revenue+Surveyor%22+india&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjJ-qgPODhYYUQNTdFdWt8T3x88hyAS0UHSWTdBi2dEs1tpROafaGqWnoCjBNinzl1B1-G2jJ8flSKywf0LS93XY8VkLuBxcPdwQC5R23u8wiqwMraS-H-cSzAYJdnoHvQabSgx&sig=AHIEtbSXREsUXnSeYhrMadnsqB5e_PQRBg    html version], [http://www.stayhomz.com/history.pdf original pdf] www.stayhomz.com
*The Path to the Hills: History of the Plantations on Western Ghats. Tea Coffee and Rubber. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:mb4CNqQRCP4J:www.stayhomz.com/history.pdf+%22Revenue+Surveyor%22+india&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjJ-qgPODhYYUQNTdFdWt8T3x88hyAS0UHSWTdBi2dEs1tpROafaGqWnoCjBNinzl1B1-G2jJ8flSKywf0LS93XY8VkLuBxcPdwQC5R23u8wiqwMraS-H-cSzAYJdnoHvQabSgx&sig=AHIEtbSXREsUXnSeYhrMadnsqB5e_PQRBg    html version], [http://www.stayhomz.com/history.pdf original pdf] www.stayhomz.com
*[http://www.upasi.org/ UPASI (The United Planters' Association of Southern India)] is an apex body of planters of tea, coffee, rubber, pepper and cardamom in the Southern States of India viz. Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka in existence since 1893.
*[http://www.upasi.org/ UPASI (The United Planters' Association of Southern India)] is an apex body of planters of tea, coffee, rubber, pepper and cardamom in the Southern States of India viz. Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka in existence since 1893.
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Revision as of 04:24, 8 March 2014

The drinking of coffee was popular in England as early as the 1600s. The first coffee house was opened in Oxford in 1650 and London’s first coffee house was opened in 1652.

There is a legend that coffee arrived in India about this same time when Baba Budan smuggled seven coffee seeds into the country after his pilgrimage to Yemen. This gave rise to the cultivation of coffee in Chikmagalur in the, now Baba Budangiri, hills of southern India.

In 1773 antagonism arose in the British colonies – particularly North America - against the East India Company’s monopoly of the tea trade. This resulted in the Boston Tea Party (wherein tea, carried by the East India Company to Boston harbour, was thrown overboard into the water) which was one of the events leading up to the American War of Independence. The effects of this also rebounded on the coffee trade – as can be evidenced by the 1780 Europa Act .

The coffee industry has remained centred in the hills of Southern India. The early nineteenth century saw an increased growth in coffee planting – the activity having spread to the Shevaroy Hills (notably at Yercaud) and the Nilgiris (Kotagiri and Coonoor). This was not long after the first coffee house in India had opened in Calcutta(c 1780) which was followed by others – thus increasing its popularity as a fashionable drink.

It is noted that Catherine Falls near Kotagiri is named after the wife of M D Cockburn, district collector of Salem, who is said to be the person responsible for introducing the coffee plant to Yercaud in 1820. In 1843 he established the first coffee estate in Kotagiri.

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