AN OUTLINE OF TEA ASSOCIATIONS IN NORTH BENGAL
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Tea plantation industry in colonial North Bengal was started both by the European tea planters at first and the Indian tea planters at a later stage. The European tea gardens both in Darjeeling hill, Terai and Jalpaiguri Duars were managed and controlled by the white tea men associations such as Duars Planters Association, Darjeeling Planters Association. These associations have grown up to safeguard their own interests and sometime to assist the employers in time of need. The Indians did not get entry there. This resulted in setting up the Indian planters own associations such as Indian Tea Planters Association, Terai Indian Planters Association which worked as a umbrella to safeguard the interests of the Indian tea planters. After the partition of India, the European association became Indianised and the Marwari traders took prime role in such tea associations. Unfortunately this phase of tea industry is still remaining obscure. Hence an attempt has been made here to write the history of tea associations in colonial North Bengal.
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