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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 had arisen arose in the British colonies – particularly North America- against the East India Company’s monopoly of the [[tea|tea trade]]. This had 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 subsequent 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 [[Nilgiri Hills|Niligiris]] ([[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.
