title: Indian Tea Association
text: # Indian Tea Association
  
  The Indian Tea Association is a trade association of Indian tea producers. The head office is in Kolkata (Calcutta).
  
  ## History
  
  The Association was founded in 1881 to protect the interests of tea planters in British India and to promote the consumption of Indian $tea.^{:96}$ It had offices in London and in $India.^{:96}$ 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 $labourers.^{:75}$
  
  