Tagged: colonial history
Titanic's boiler-room fans came from a tea planter's works
Samuel Davidson, once a planter in Cachar, founded a Belfast works that developed tea machinery, and its Sirocco fans forced air into Titanic's boiler rooms.
The Tea Planters' Association Whose Name Is on a Football Shield
Indian planters formed an association in 1935. A football shield still contested in Jorhat carries its name, and in September 2025 it was proposing a minimum price for green leaf.
About 20 of Assam's Tea Gardens Have Golf Courses
About 20 of Assam's at least 800 large tea gardens carry a golf course, brought by 19th-century planters with no other avenue for relaxation. In August 2026 Assam raised tea and golf tourism with a Japanese trade delegation.
Assam's Tea Gardens Run an Hour Ahead of India
Chaibagaan time, the clock Assam's tea gardens have kept since the British period, is one hour ahead of Indian Standard Time and has no legal existence. In 2018 the laboratory that keeps Indian Standard Time proposed the country adopt it.
The 500-Worker Rule That Puts a Hospital in an Assam Tea Garden
Assam tea estates have run their own medical wards since before it was law. Here is the record: the colonial mortality crisis that started it, the 1951 act that made it compulsory, and the health-centre upgrade now under way.