“Assam Tea: Glorious 200 Years” Book Released at Assam Book Fair

Guwahati: “Assam Tea: Glorious 200 Years”—a” comprehensive book on the history of tea in Assam spanning over two hundred years—was released at the Assam Book Fair by Dr. Ranoj Pegu on Friday. Authored by noted journalist Dr. Samudra Gupta Kashyap, the book traces the history of tea in the world, examines the “discovery” of tea in Assam by the British way back in 1823, and analyses the growth and development of the tea industry and its socio-economic contributions.

“The story of tea in Assam is inseparable from the socio-political and economic developments that the northeastern region has experienced in the past two centuries. That ‘discovery’ of tea in Assam and the developments that followed literally changed the course of the history of Northeast India,” author Dr. Kashyap later said.

“The British were supposed to go back from Assam after flushing out the Burmese invaders in the 1820s. But as they found tea in Assam, it opened up a new area of enterprise and trade for the East India Company, which had around that time lost its monopoly on Chinese tea,” Dr. Kashyap informed.

 Published by the Publication Board Assam, the book also brings to the fore, among other things, the contribution of the small tea growers in meeting the growing demand for tea in the world and the various crises Assam’s tea industry has passed through in the past 200 years, stated a press release.

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