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First Assam tea auctioned in London

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A consignment reported as forty-six chests of Assam-grown tea was sold at auction in London, the first Indian-grown tea offered on the British market. It proved the crop commercially and triggered the formation of the Assam Company later the same year. From this point the question stops being whether British India can grow tea and becomes how fast plantations, land and labour can be assembled to do it at scale.

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  1. Story
  2. A consignment reported as forty-six chests of Assam-grown tea was sold at auction in London, the first Indian-grown tea offered on the British market. It proved the crop commercially and triggered the formation of the Assam Company later the same year. From this point the question stops being whether British India can grow tea and becomes how fast plantations, land and labour can be assembled to do it at scale.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Tea
  5. Assam
  6. Assam Company
  7. London
  8. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  9. Connections
  10. Assam
  11. London
  12. Tea
  13. Assam Company
  14. Camellia sinensis
  15. English (later British) East India Company
  16. Assam Company
  17. Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
  18. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  19. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  20. Tea
  21. Afternoon tea
  22. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  23. Boston Tea Party
  24. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  25. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  26. London Marathon
  27. New York City
  28. White City Stadium
  29. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
  30. The first London Marathon
  31. The Great Exhibition
  32. Google DeepMind
  33. Camellia sinensis
  34. Silver
  35. London
  36. Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao)
  37. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
  38. English (later British) East India Company
  39. Tea culture
  40. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  41. Tea-for-horse exchange between China and Tibet
  42. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  43. Qing trade confined to Canton
  44. Boston Tea Party
  45. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  46. Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
  47. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  48. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  49. The Opium Wars
  50. Treaty of Nanking
  51. Assam
  52. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  53. Evidence
  54. Documents the 1823 Singpho tea encounter, Charles Bruce's samples, the 1834 Tea Committee, the January 1839 London auction of Assam tea and the founding of the Assam Company.
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