East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded

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Parliament ended the Company's monopoly of the China trade, and in the same year the Governor-General Lord William Bentinck established a Tea Committee charged with determining whether tea could be grown commercially in British India. The two moves are connected: with its privileged position in China gone, and with the payment problem unresolved, growing tea inside British territory became a strategic objective rather than a botanical curiosity. The Committee's early work relied on Charles Bruce's Assam material.

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