The Indian Tea Association is a
trade association
A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry. An industry trade association partic ...
of Indian tea producers. The
head office
Headquarters (commonly referred to as HQ) denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. In the United States, the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the top ...
is in
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
(Calcutta).
History
The Association was founded in 1881 to protect the interests of
tea planters in
British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...
and to promote the consumption of Indian tea. It had offices in London and in India. It also laid down rules for the recruitment of labour for the plantations and in the early twentieth century attempted to raise the standards of treatment of labourers.
References
Further reading
{{Portal, India
Social perspective of labour legislation in India 1859–1932: As applied to tea plantations(1987) by Ramkrishna Chattopadhyay
The early history of the Tea industry in North-East India(1918) by Harold Mann
The Tea industry in India :A Review of Finance and Labour, and a guide for Capitalists and Assistants(1882) by Samuel Baildon
Tea Planter's Life in Assam(1884) by George Barker
(1937) by W M Fraser
Indian Tea Association ITA to promote TeaABITA implements Social Welfare schemes in Assam with UNICEF
Tea industry in India
Organisations based in Kolkata
Organisations based in Assam
Trade associations based in India
1881 establishments in India
Organizations established in 1881