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|name = Indian Tea Association<br />
|image = Indian Tea Association logo.jpg<br />
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|founded = 1881<br />
|location = {{ubl|[[Kolkata]]|[[Guwahati]]|[[Jorhat]]|[[Tezpur]]|[[Dibrugarh]]|[[Binnaguri]]|[[Silchar]]|[[Bagdogra]]|[[Darjeeling]]}}<br />
|website = {{url|indiatea.org}}<br />
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The '''Indian Tea Association''' is a [[trade association]] of Indian tea producers. The [[head office]] is in [[Kolkata]] (Calcutta).<br />
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== History ==<br />
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The Association was founded in 1881 to protect the interests of [[tea plantation|tea planters]] in [[British India]] and to promote the consumption of Indian tea.{{r|anandi|page=96}} It had offices in London and in India.{{r|anandi|page=96}} 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.{{r|sarah|page=75}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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<ref name=anandi>Anandi Ramamurthy (2003). [https://books.google.it/books?id=oNdRLXSwd4sC&pg=PA96 ''Imperial Persuaders: Images of Africa and Asia in British Advertising'']. Manchester: Manchester University Press. {{ISBN|0719063787}}.</ref><br />
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<ref name=sarah>Sarah Besky (2014). [https://books.google.it/books?id=RcIBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA75 ''The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India'']. Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN|9780520957602}}.</ref><br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120308171812/http://dspace.vidyanidhi.org.in:8080/dspace/handle/2009/3466 Social perspective of labour legislation in India 1859–1932: As applied to tea plantations] (1987) by Ramkrishna Chattopadhyay<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/cu31924013772441 The early history of the Tea industry in North-East India] (1918) by Harold Mann<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023610128 The Tea industry in India :A Review of Finance and Labour, and a guide for Capitalists and Assistants] (1882) by Samuel Baildon<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023234515 Tea Planter's Life in Assam] (1884) by George Barker<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061107083919/http://www.koi-hai.com/jamesmcnie-book.html The Recollections of a Tea Planter] (1937) by W M Fraser<br />
* [http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-Tea-Association Indian Tea Association]<br />
* [http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-04-28/news/61616385_1_azam-monem-mril-capita-tea-consumption ITA to promote Tea]<br />
* [http://www.eastern-today.com/entries/op-ed/-abita-implements-social-welfare-programs-in-assam-with-its-decade-old-partner-unicef ABITA implements Social Welfare schemes in Assam with UNICEF]<br />
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