HTST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Indian Tea Association, Robert Fortune, Horticulture
15 Oct 2018
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Lecture 10: 4-12 million out of 460 million in china, 1850, early 1900s about 1/4 of adult chinese men used opium regularly. In 2012, 2. 1million out of 314 million in the united states (opiate addiction) Involved in a large scale smuggling operations: 1830-turned a trade deficit into a trade surplus, money is going towards europe, british india, britain destructive but major trade partner with china. British import substitution: war and business, beic in decline, 19th century, assam, 1820s, robert bruce, tea committee (1830s) Local tea charles bruce: tea "transfer, george james gordon (tea spy, assam company, 1839. Labour control: the tea revolution in india. Indian tea association: indentured labour, promises, sign contract to work on plantation for one year, good pay, good working conditions, realities, bad life conditions - brutal conditions, small pay, unsanitary-high amount of work required. Late 1860, 85000 workers brought into assam to work into plantations: 35 000 deserted/died.
