Victoria Tea Co.

The British discovered tea in India and cultivated and consumed it in quantity between the 1820s and independence from British in 1947. Around 1774, Warren Hastings sent China seeds to George Bogle, the then British emissary in Bhutan, for planting, nothing came of this experiment. In 1776, Sir Joseph Banks, the great English botanist, was asked to prepare a series of notes - and he recommended that tea cultivation be undertaken in India. In 1780. Robert Kyd experimented cultivation in India, He took seeds from a consignment stated to have arrived from China, decades later. Robert Bruce discovered tea plants growing in the Upper Brahmaputra Valley. In May 1823. the first Indian tea from Assam was sent to England for public sale