In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of ...

After 20:00 when the moon is at its brightest, some 80 to 100 specially trained tea-pickers take to the hills to quickly pluck two leaves and the bud from each Camellia sinensis plant and place ...

From the 18th century, British botanists believed they could grow tea in India but they didn’t have the technology — the history of tea thus has colourful characters who disguised themselves ...

The great British cup of tea, so vital for holding together body and soul in these trying times, could be in peril from the climate crisis as rising temperatures in countries that grow the leaves ...

The British also discovered tea growing in India’s North East, which led them to plant Chinese tea varieties in huge plantations developed for the Western market.

He also took with him nine workers with intimate knowledge of how to grow tea to a high standard. Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, dozens of plantations were established in the Assam region of India.

It all began with a Scottish mandarin who smuggled a tea plant from China in 1848 . June 18, 2025 e-Paper. ... the British responded by growing opium in India — largely in Bengal, Patna, ...

Darjeeling, in the Himalayan foothills, is famous for its tea, its elevated railroad and the view of dawn breaking over Mt. Everest. A writer fulfilled a childhood dream of visiting.