The Indian Tea Association is a trade association of Indian tea producers. The head office is in Kolkata (Calcutta). History The Association was founded in 1881 to protect the interests of tea planters in British India and to promote the consumption of Indian tea. It had offices in London and in India. It also laid down rules for the recruitment of labour for the plantations and in the early twentieth century attempted to raise the standards of treatment of labourers. References Further reading Social perspective of labour legislation in India 1859–1932: As applied to tea plantations (1987) by Ramkrishna Chattopadhyay The early history of the Tea industry in North-East India (1918) by Harold Mann The Tea industry in India :A Review of Finance and Labour, and a guide for Capitalists and Assistants (1882) by Samuel Baildon Tea Planter's Life in Assam (1884) by George Barker The Recollections of a Tea Planter (1937) by W M Fraser Indian Tea Association ITA to promote Tea ABITA implements Social Welfare schemes in Assam with UNICEF Tea industry in India Organisations based in Kolkata Organisations based in Assam Trade associations based in India 1881 establishments in India Organizations established in 1881