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Art. XII—Notes on the production of Tea in Assam, and in India generally

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2011

J. C. Marshman Esq
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The subject of the cultivation of tea in Assam was first brought under the notice ofthe Committee of Trade and Agriculture of this Society on the 10th November, 1838, when “An Account of the Manufacture of Black Tea as practised in Upper Assam by the Chinamen sent thither for that purpose,” which had been drawn up by Mr. W. Bruce, the Superintendent of the Tea Culture, on the part of the Indian Government, was presentedby the Secretary of the East India Company.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 19 , January 1862 , pp. 315 - 320
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1862

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