The Indian Tea Association is a trade association of Indian tea producers. The head office is in Kolkata (Calcutta).
Founded | 1881 |
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Website | indiatea |
The Association was founded in 1881 to protect the interests of tea planters in British India and to promote the consumption of Indian tea.[1]: 96 It had offices in London and in India.[1]: 96 It also laid down rules for the recruitment of labour for the plantations and in the early twentieth century attempted to raise the standards of treatment of labourers.[2]: 75