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[http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/collections/scottishbusinessarchive/jamesfinlayco/ Guide to James Finlay & Co Managers and Assistants Letterbooks] University of Glasgow. .Finlay Muir & Co as the company became known began to diversify into tea estate management around 1882 and by 1901 was managing extensive tea estates in India and Sri Lanka. These letterbooks contain a wealth of information about the men recruited in Britain to manage the Finlay tea estate business overseas
==Volunteer Regiments==
Volunteer Regiments involving tea planters include
*[[Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles]] with headquarters at [[Darjeeling]]
*[[Assam Valley Light Horse]] with headquarters at Dibrugarh
*[[Surma Valley Light Horse]] with headquarters at Silchar
==Historical books==
*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
==Historical books online==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NIcIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Report No 23 : Report upon the present condition and future of tea cultivation in the north-west provinces and in the Punjab''] from ''Selections from the records of the Government of India (Home Department)'' 1857 Google Books
