Earl Grey tea has been popular for more than a century, but who was Earl Grey, why did he have a tea named for him, and why ...

The East India Company placed its first order for tea in 1664 – it could only be bought from China at the time and the Company had a monopoly. It quickly became the Englishman’s afternoon ...

The crisis revived only when Parliament resolved to dump the tea of the ailing East India Company on colonial markets. Seizing on this pretext, a minority of determined patriots rekindled the ...

Thanks to the East India Company, exotic goods like spices from Indonesia, tea and porcelain from China, became part of everydaylife. Every year, huge merchant ships of the East India Company ...

GUWAHATI: Over two hundred thousand small tea growers from India's North-East, under the banner of the North East Confederation of Small Tea Growers’ Association, have written to Prime Minister ...