Eager to break China’s monopoly on tea, the British were actively seeking alternative sources. In the early 19th century, ...

For centuries, Assam’s tea gardens have been synonymous with lush ... of 1000 kilowatts for grid-connected rooftop solar power plants at a single location for tea, coffee, and rubber industries.

In Assam, two Scottish brothers, Robert and Charles Bruce (both are buried in a Tezpur church), became the first Britishers to discover that tea plants grew wild locally and were consumed by the ...