In a village in Hubei province, a woman who made money raising silk worms and planting tea spent a good part of her profits making sure her daughter learned how to use a computer.

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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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It is now planting 800 hectares a year with tea and coffee and is probably the largest non-mineral development firm in Africa outside South Africa.

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