Teacool

High-grade tea grows on the slope of steep mountain ranges in India. The plantations are terraces that encircle the slopes of the mountains. As a rule, at dawn, women pick tea with their delicate hands. This is a very labor-intensive process, with every leaf, its integrity and shape playing an important role. This is the price of high quality tea.

The true history of Indian tea begins in the Himalayan foothills of the north and north-east of the country, where wild tea trees grew for many centuries and whose leaves were consumed by the locals. Legend has it that unknown traders from England, while in China, simply stole a few tea bushes. They brought these bushes to India and, having chosen a flat area for planting, they cultivated strange tea trees on it.

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Who could have imagined that India began to cultivate tea as a British colony only from the second half of the 19th century? It would seem that in Russia this drink had already become national, accessible and loved by everyone (see The emergence of tea in Russia), while in the British colony of that time it was only just learned about it! But now India is a leader in the production of "mass" teas. How did the history of tea in India develop? To what does the country owe its rapid development of the tea industry?

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