Sepoydhoorah (Chamling) Tea Estate, (1)
sepoys, (1)
Seth, Kavi, (1)
Sévigné, Marquis de, (1)
Sharma, Sanjay, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16)
Shastri, Lal Bahadur, (1)
Shimla, (1)
Shiva, (1)
Siegert, Johann Gottlieb Benjamin, (1)
Sikkim, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Silesia, (1)
silicosis, (1)
Siliguri, (1), (2)
Siliguri Corridor, (1)
silver, (1), (2)
Silver Needle, (1), (2)
Silver Tips Imperial, (1), (2), (3)
Singapore, (1)
Singbulli Tea Garden, (1)
Singell, (1)
Singh, B. B., (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Siraj-ud-Daulah, (1)
Sivitar Tea Estate, (1)
Smith, Michael, (1)
Smith, Steven, (1), (2), (3)
snakes, (1)
soccer, (1)
soil, (1), (2)
soil erosion, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
South Korea, (1)
Soviet Union, (1)
spiced chicken cutlet, (1)
Spice Islands, (1)
spice trade, (1)
St. Andrew’s Kirk, (1)
Starbucks, (1)
Start, William, (1)
Stash Tea, (1)
Steiner, Rudolf, (1), (2), (3), (4)
St. John’s Church, (1)
Stölke, Joachim, (1)
Storl, Wolf, (1)
St. Paul’s Cathedral, (1)
St. Paul’s School, (1)
Suddeya, (1)
Suez Canal, (1)
sugar, (1)
Summer Palace, (1)
superintendents, (1)
Surat, (1)
sustainability, (1), (2), (3)
swadeshi, (1)
Tagore, Rabindranath, (1)
Tang Dynasty, (1)
tannin, (1), (2), (3)
tasting rooms, (1), (2)
tastings, (1), (2)
Tata, (1), (2), (3)
Tata Tea Gold, (1)
Tawadey, Kiran, (1)
taxes
on opium, (1)
on tea, (1), (2)
Tazo, (1)
tea
See also Darjeeling tea
Assam, (1)
auctions, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Chinese, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
exports, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
green, (1)
health benefits of, (1), (2), (3)
history of, (1)
Japanese, (1)
Nepalese, (1)
oolong, (1), (2)
organic, (1)
production of, (1)
pu-erh, (1)
sale of, (1)
tasting, (1)
terms for, (1)
Tibetan, (1)
trade, (1)
types of, (1), (2)
white, (1)
tea bags, (1)
tea bars, (1)
Tea Board of India, (1), (2), (3)
tea brokers, (1)
tea ceremony, (1)
Tea Committee, (1), (2), (3)
Tea Deva, (1)
tea estates, (1), (2), (3)
See also specific estates
during British Raj, (1)
decline of, (1)
ownership of, (1), (2)
planters, (1), (2), (3), (4)
pluckers, (1), (2), (3), (4)
post-independence, (1)
profit margins for, (1), (2), (3)
tea forests, (1)
tea industry
challenges for, (1)
in India, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
in Kenya, (1)
in Nepal, (1)
tea-marbled deviled eggs, (1)
tea planters. See planters
Telangana, (1)
television, (1)
Temi Tea Estate, (1)
temperance movement, (1)
temperature, (1)
Terai, (1), (2)
Tetley Tea, (1)
Thomas Marten & Company, (1)
See also J. Thomas & Co.
thukpa, (1)
Thurbo Tea Estate, (1), (2)
Tibet, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Tibetan tea, (1)
Tocklai Tea Research Institute, (1)
Tollygunge Club, (1)
tourism, (1)
trade
opium, (1), (2)
spice, (1)
tea, (1), (2)
transportation costs, (1)
Treaty of Nanking, (1), (2)
trees, (1)
Trocki, Carl, (1)
tropical diseases, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Tukvar Mission, (1)
Tukvar Tea Estate, (1), (2), (3)
Twain, Mark, (1), (2), (3)
Twinings & Co., (1)
Ukers, William, (1), (2)
Unilever, (1)
Upton Tea Importers, (1)
urbanization, (1)
Vasco da Gama, (1)
Vedas, (1)
vermicomposting, (1)
Victoria (queen), (1), (2), (3)
viticulture, (1)
wages, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Wallich, Nathaniel, (1)
Ward, Nathaniel, (1)
Wardian cases, (1), (2)
Watts, Alan, (1)
The Way of Zen (Watts), (1)
Wernicke, Andrew, (1)
West Bengal, (1), (2)
Western Europe, (1), (2), (3)
Whampoa, (1)
White, James, (1)
white tea, (1), (2)
Wilkins, Charles, (1)
William (prince), (1)
Windamere Hotel, (1), (2), (3)
Withecombe, J. R., (1)
withering stage, (1)
women
afternoon tea and, (1)
European, in India, (1)
pluckers, (1), (2)
Woolf, Leonard, (1)
worker absenteeism, (1), (2), (3)
workers/workforce, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)
World Trade Organization (WTO), (1)
Wright, Gillian, (1)
Writers’ Building, (1)
Yellow Mountain region, (1)
yellow tea, (1)
Yunnan, (1)
Zafar, Bahadur Shah, (1)
Zen Buddhism, (1), (2)
Zhou Dynasty, (1)
Plate Section
India produces about one billion kilograms of tea a year. Each of the country’s growing regions gives a different character to the final cup. (Gary Antonetti)
Darjeeling tea is produced on eighty-seven gardens that have a total of 19,500 hectares (48,000 acres) under tea. Recent harvests have yielded only around eight million kilos of finished tea. (Gary Antonetti)
The leaves, flowers, and seeds of Camellia sinensis—tea.
Darjeeling was originally established as a hill station retreat for East India Company employees to rest and recuperate in the cool mountain air. Mt. Kanchenjunga overlooks the city.
As governor-general of India, the controversial Lord William Bentinck formed the Tea Committee in 1834 and was instrumental in helping to establish India’s tea industry
In the 1840s, the great botanist and explorer Joseph Dalton Hooker spent three years in the Darjeeling hills, Sikkim, and Nepal identifying and collecting plants.
Early Darjeeling tea pluckers with a European overseer. (James Sinclair)
Established in 1868, Darjeeling’s Planters’ Club (on the right) was, until recently, the center of social life for tea planters. (Ratna Pradhan/DAS Studio)
Dr. Nathaniel Wallich was superintendent of the East India Company’s botanic garden in Calcutta for three decades and was at its helm when wild tea was found growing in Assam. Considered the Empire’s nursery, the garden was fundamental in developing a tea industry on the subcontinent. (Wellcome Library)