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*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=628&s_id=806 Tea Planters Cachar 1865-1875] on the FIBIS database, over 200 names listed.

*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Category:Tea_images Tea Images] Images relating to tea planters and tea production comprising some of the original material mentioned below - examples of which are on this page.==Fibis Lecture recordings==Fibis lecture recordings are available to Fibis members only when logged in to the website. They can be found in the Members Area - under the heading Open Lectures *"Life with Tea and India: Diaries of Family Life in the Cachar Area". The first 10 minutes of a talk given Talk by Wendy Pratt (FIBIS Member) and Peter Bleakley at the FIBIS Spring Lecture meeting 22 May 2010 is available to download or listen to on the [http://feeds.feedburner.com/FibisPodcast podcast page]. The full version is available for FIBIS members only in the [http://members-area(2011).fibis.org/ FIBIS Social Network], previously known as the Members Area. Members can also access the accompanying visual presentation which displays impressive original material including photographs and equipment designs.*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Category:Tea_images "Thomas Meekin's Tea Images] Images relating to tea planters and tea production comprising some Times" A story of Life on the original material mentioned above - examples of which are on this pagePlantation" Talk by Andrew McMeekin 2017.

*From the end of the 19th century special sections covering '''tea plantations''' appear in ''Thacker's Indian Directories''. [httphttps://www.shop.fibis.org/fact_files.htm store/fibis-books-and-publications/fibis-fact-files/bff-0003-indian-directories-by-richard-morgan/ ''FIBIS Fact File No 3 - Indian Directories by Richard Morgan''] states "The tea section lists within each area the names of the firms, their “tea gardens” (areas under cultivation), the trade mark or logo of the company as it was stamped on their tea chests , the postal address, acreage, proprietors, general managers and assistants, Indian agents and addresses, and London Agents and addresses”

Some ''Thackers'' are available online, refer [[Directories online# Thacker's Indian Directory| Directories online-Thacker's Indian Directory]].

**''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. Consists of 11 Plates/Maps. UIN: BLL01004862801

*[https://archive.org/details/memoriesofanafri005386mbp/page/n5 ''Memories Of An of an African Hunter With A with a Chapter On on Eastern India''] by Denis D Lyell 1923 Archive.org. Missing pages 18-9, 12-13. He [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b33687?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library version] all pages. Lyell went to a tea garden in 1894, and worked in various locations until c 1899.*[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmag1910-v25/page/77/mode/2up "The Tea-Planter and the Tigress"] by A W Strachan page 78 ''The Wide World Magazine. Volume 25 1910 May-October'' Archive.org

*[httphttps://pahararchive.inorg/wpfb-filedetails/1970-assam-shikari-tea-planters-story-of-hunting-and-high-adventure-by-nicholls-s-pdf/ dli.pahar.3375 ''Assam Shikari. A tea planter's story of hunting and high adventure in the jungles of North East India''] by Frank Nicholls, (born 1889) 1970. Pdf download Archive.org, mirror from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Nicholls (born 1889) went to India 1911 as an assistant manager to a tea estate in Assam. He retired 1952, and remained in Assam until 1963.

*Text from ''Navvies To The Fourteenth Army'' by AH Pilcher c 1947 is available as pdf downloads from the Koi Hai website, located under [http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=508961 Memories, the Henderson Family] Scroll down to the item dated October 12, 2009. [https://archive.org/details/0-title-navvies/0TitleNavvies/ Archive.org mirror version]. Does not contain the illustrations and maps from the original publication. The author was Col: A H Pilcher who at the outbreak of the second world war commanded the [[Assam Valley Light Horse]]. In March 1942 he was put in charge of raising a labour force from the Tea Plantations to build the Manipur/Burma Road to evacuate the 14th Army and also the many civilians who were fleeing Burma. Eventually he raised and commanded a labour force of 82000 <ref> Scroll down to comments section [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a2776340.shtml Jungle Work: A Civil Engineer in Burma] BBC ww2peopleswar</ref> This book (55 pages) was published in Calcutta for Private Circulation and was illustrated with black and white plates and line drawing maps. <ref> marelibri.com, page no longer accessible</ref> The [[British Library]] has a catalogue reference Mss Eur F174/1316, but this is possibly a manuscript, not the printed book. The book is available at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Library, University of London.

:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1955-himalayan-tea-garden-by-fletcher-s-pdf/ ''Himalayan Tea Garden''] by David Wilson Fletcher. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Full title: ''Himalayan Tea Garden: A Young Family's Adventures on a Tea Plantation Near Darjeeling''. Published New York, 1955.[https:These two publications are possibly the same book//archive.org/details/himalayanteagard00flet/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library edition], with different titlescatalogued 1956. Catalogue details state "Originally published in London in 1955 under title: ''The children of Kanchenjunga''". Elsewhere, the author was stated to be a Gurkha officer who ran a tea plantation in Darjeeling in 1953.

**Includes a [http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=521666 link] to a Directory (34 pages pdf which may be downloaded) published by the India Tea Association Calcutta 1930, consisting of a ''Complete Index to Tea Gardens in India'' (28 pages) and maps of the North Eastern tea areas: Sibsagar (computer page 30); [[Cachar]] p 31; [[Dibrugarh]] (p 32) Lakimpur (p 33) and Sylhet (p 34). [https://archive.org/details/index-tea-gardens/mode/1up?view=theater Archive.org mirror version].