Tagged: chabua

Chabua Means Tea Planting. Corramore Means a Scottish Farm.

Two Assam gardens, one named in Assamese for the act of planting tea and one named in Gaelic after a Scottish farm, show how little a garden name on a packet has to do with what happened on the ground.

The Tea Gardens the War Turned Into Airfields

In 1942 Assam's tea country was carved into the airfields that flew the most punishing supply run of the Second World War, one of them raised on a working tea estate's own grounds. The same monsoon sent half a million people on foot through the same tea country, going the other way.