It was actually a means of keeping the East India Tea Company in business by limiting the source of tea to the colonies.
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However, the stylish Dolphins captain turned on the style after tea as India's bowlers continued to toil.
Virender Sehwag, who probably needed to be still there at tea if India were to have any hope of getting the required runs, lasted just nine balls.
INDIA's two biggest tea companies, Tata Tea and Williamson Magor, have been accused of aiding insurgents in the north-eastern state of Assam.
Today, this efficient method is used in more than 100 countries to grow crops using less water, energy and fewer chemicals, including projects in South Africa, China, India and even for growing tea in Tanzania.
After tea, Harbhajan became India's key man with neither fast bowler able to extract anything from the wicket.
"It wasn't easy, as in those early days India was considered an exporter of tea and jute, not high-tech services, " he smiles.
India were 166-6 at tea, 252 ahead, but Australia were worried by the slow rate and turned to Cameron White and Mike Hussey and India built a 382-run lead.
India is the world's largest tea producer, with Assam accounting for about 55% of its 856m kilogram production last year.
Anderson showed some improved batting skills to get to 15 before giving short leg a catch off Harbhajan and India's openers survived five overs before tea.
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Patel was held by Flintoff at second slip just before tea, but the body blow for India was losing their skipper just after the interval.
Among my favourite parts of the book is Mr Mehta's early life in London in the swinging sixties as a callow young man, who arrives from India with a few shillings and bags of Indian tea.
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England has been intimately connected to this corner of India since 1826, when the British began planting tea estates all along the river valley of the mighty Brahmaputra, which courses out of the Himalayas and flows through Assam on its way to the Indian Ocean.
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On a worldwide trip in December, Alwaleed's itinerary included a chat with Japanese real estate mogul Minoru Mori in Tokyo, a visit to Daewoo Chairman Kim Woo-Choong in Seoul, a lunch with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad in Kuala Lumpur and tea with the then prime minister of India, Inder Kumar Gujral, in New Delhi.
The other amazing thing about this verdant and unique patch of India, rich in pepper, natural rubber, coconut, tea, coffee, cashews, and spices, is its bucolic backwater network of lagoons and canals.
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During that time he created a concentrated caramel tea latte formula that included very expensive teas from Darjeeling, India, and burnt-caramel sauce from a gourmet chocolate company in San Francisco.
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Americans regularly brewed Twinning's tea for a while in the 1700's, but then, in 1773, the British government passed the Tea Act, a measure designed to give an advantage to the British East India Company.
As Australia pushed their score past 400 in a workmanlike manner, with the game slipping away from India, even some members of the crowd struggled to stay awake as they reached 416-7 at tea.
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