Tagged: colonial history
The Tea Trade Body That Still Gives Away a Football Shield
In 1935 Indian planters won a seat on a colonial tax committee. Their association went on to fund a football trophy still contested in Jorhat today, and in September 2025 it was proposing a minimum price for green leaf to force bad tea out of the market.
Assam's 800 Tea Gardens. About 20 Have Golf Courses.
Roughly 20 of Assam's tea estates carry a golf course cut into their own land, built by planters who had nowhere else to be. As of August 2026, Japan is looking at them, though nothing has been signed.
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.