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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_filter_coffee Indian filter coffee] Wikipedia.  Gives an interesting account of coffee drinking habits with topical quotes.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_filter_coffee Indian filter coffee] Wikipedia.  Gives an interesting account of coffee drinking habits with topical quotes.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._D._Cockburn  M D Cockburn] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._D._Cockburn  M D Cockburn] Wikipedia
* "Evolution of Plantations, Migration, and Population Growth in Nilgiris and Coorg (South India)" by Steen Folke, ''Geografisk Tidsskrift'' Bind 65 (1966) [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.kb.dk%2Ftidsskriftdk%2Fpdf%2Fgto%2Fgto_0065-PDF%2Fgto_0065_71567.pdf Docs.google version],  [http://img.kb.dk/tidsskriftdk/pdf/gto/gto_0065-PDF/gto_0065_71567.pdf original pdf]
* "Evolution of Plantations, Migration, and Population Growth in Nilgiris and Coorg (South India)" by Steen Folke, ''Geografisk Tidsskrift'' Bind 65 (1966) [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.kb.dk%2Ftidsskriftdk%2Fpdf%2Fgto%2Fgto_0065-PDF%2Fgto_0065_71567.pdf Docs.google version],  [http://img.kb.dk/tidsskriftdk/pdf/gto/gto_0065-PDF/gto_0065_71567.pdf original pdf]
*[http://www.deccanherald.com/content/6949/snippets.html "The white planter’s exalted club"] by Shashikiran Mullur, ''The Deccan Herald'' (2009).  Recalls British coffee planters in the town of Munzerabad (Sakleshpur).  
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140511085406/http://www.deccanherald.com/content/6949/snippets.html "The white planter’s exalted club"] by Shashikiran Mullur, ''The Deccan Herald'' (2009), now archived.  Recalls British coffee planters in the town of Munzerabad (Sakleshpur).  
*The Path to the Hills: History of the Plantations on Western Ghats. Tea Coffee and Rubber.  [http://www.stayhomz.com/history.pdf original pdf] www.stayhomz.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131116184038/http://www.stayhomz.com/history.pdf "The Path to the Hills: History of the Plantations on Western Ghats. Tea Coffee and Rubber"] stayhomz.com, now archived.
*[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.
*[http://www.hindu.com/br/2005/04/12/stories/2005041200141400.htm "From the pages of history"] April 12, 2005 ''The Hindu'' The United Planters' Association of Southern India
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100121134025/http://www.hindu.com/br/2005/04/12/stories/2005041200141400.htm "From the pages of history"] April 12, 2005 ''The Hindu'', now archived. The United Planters' Association of Southern India.
*[https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/travel/yercauds-tipperary-bungalow-showcases-heritage-architecture/article34098281.ece "Tipperary Bungalow: Yercaud’s heritage home of misty memories"] by  Nahla Nainar 18 March 2021 ''The Hindu''. The coffee plantation belonging to the Dickens family in the British era is still part of a working coffee farm that also cultivates jackfruit, avocado, banana, wild turmeric and pepper.
*[http://www.poabsestates.com/plantations/travancore/travancore-planting-history/ Planting History [Central Travancore<nowiki>]</nowiki>] poabsestates.com
*[http://www.poabsestates.com/plantations/travancore/travancore-planting-history/ Planting History [Central Travancore<nowiki>]</nowiki>] poabsestates.com



Latest revision as of 02:26, 19 March 2021

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.

External links

Historical books online

Gold, Sport and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert H Elliot 1894 Archive.org.

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