Tagged: jorhat
The Gardens That Split India's Only Ape
Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, home to India's only ape, was cut off from the wider forest by the tea gardens planted around it starting in 1880. A colonial railway line split what was left again. Here is the record, the fifteen-year tree-planting project that grew the animals a way back across, and the electrification plan now threatening that same crossing.
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.
Maniram Dewan, the First Indian to Plant Assam Tea, and the British Who Hanged Him
Maniram Dewan ran the Assam Company's tea operation, then quit and planted the first Indian-owned commercial tea gardens in the 1840s. In 1853 he petitioned the British in writing and was dismissed; they hanged him on 26 February 1858. Here is the plain record.
The Tocklai Institute
The complete record of the Tocklai Tea Research Institute at Jorhat, the world's oldest tea research station and the office behind nearly every clone, pest study, and quality benchmark this office has ever certified. How a single chemist's post in 1891 became a formal station in 1911, what its eleven divisions do, and the science it has produced since.