Darjeeling (43 page)

38.
   “First Public Sale of the Newly Discovered Assam Tea,” 339.

39.
   Ukers,
All About Tea
, 1:147

40.
   Griffiths,
History of the Indian Tea Industry
, 69.

41.
   Mann,
Early History of the Tea Industry
, 30.

42.
   Ibid., 13.

43.
   Ibid., 36.

44.
   Griffiths,
History of the Indian Tea Industry
, 58.

45.
   “Tea in India.”

46.
   Moxham,
Tea
, 114.

47.
   Roy,
Historical Review of Growth
, 168.

48.
   Griffiths,
History of the Indian Tea Industry
, 127.

49.
   Ibid., 129.

50.
   Ibid., 144.

51.
   Paul,
Story of Tea
, 67.

CHAPTER 5: CHINA LEAF

  
1.
   Dunse History Society Web site, “Robert Fortune.”

  
2.
   Rose,
For All the Tea in China
, 8.

  
3.
   Fortune,
Journey to the Tea Countries of China
, 165.

  
4.
   Ibid., 355.

  
5.
   Ibid., 414.

  
6.
   Ibid., 356.

  
7.
   Ibid.

  
8.
   Rose,
For All the Tea in China
, 198.

  
9.
   Harcourt,
Flagships of Imperialism
, 100.

10.
   Kipling,
Land and Sea Tales
, 35.

11.
   Keay,
India Discovered
, 21.

12.
   Fortune,
Journey to the Tea Countries of China
, 358.

13.
   Ibid., 362.

14.
   Ibid., 363.

15.
   Ibid.

16.
   Ibid.

17.
   Ibid., 398.

18.
   Ibid.

CHAPTER 6: DARJEELING

  
1.
   Hooker,
Himalayan Journals
, 106.

  
2.
   Lamb,
British India and Tibet
, 68–69.

  
3.
   Hooker,
Himalayan Journals
, 113.

  
4.
   Lamb,
British India and Tibet
, 69.

  
5.
   Ibid., 70.

  
6.
   O’Malley,
Bengal District Gazetteer: Darjeeling
, 21.

  
7.
   Pinn,
Darjeeling Pioneers
, 35.

  
8.
   Banerjee and Banerjee,
Darjeeling Tea
, 4.

  
9.
   Pinn,
Road of Destiny
, 35.

10.
   Hooker,
Himalayan Journals
, 137.

11.
   Ibid., 120n.

12.
   Campbell, “Note on the Lepchas of Sikkim,” 383.

13.
   Hooker,
Himalayan Journals.
121.

14.
   Ibid.

15.
   Lepcha, “Indigenous Lepchas,” 81.

16.
   Ibid., 78.

17.
   Lingdamo, “Philosophy of the Lepcha Religion,” 59.

18.
   Sarkar, “Lepcha Community in Darjeeling Hills.”

19.
   Lama,
Story of Darjeeling
, 49.

20.
   Pinn,
Road of Destiny
, 269.

21.
   Moon,
British Conquest of India
, 724.

22.
   Malleson,
History of the Indian Mutiny
, 84.

23.
   Pinn,
Road of Destiny
, 281.

24.
   Ibid., 178.

25.
   Darjeeling District Web site, “History.”

26.
   Darjeeling District Web site, “Time Capsule.”

27.
   Pinn,
Road of Destiny
, 275.

28.
   
Journal of the Anthropological Institute
, 379.

29.
   Ibid., 391.

30.
   Pinn,
Road of Destiny
, 274.

31.
   
Journal of the Anthropological Institute
, 391.

32.
   O’Malley,
Bengal District Gazetteer: Darjeeling
, 22.

33.
   Ibid., 32.

34.
   Ghosh,
Tea Gardens of West Bengal
, 22.

35.
   Ibid.

36.
   Ibid.

37.
   
Nest & Wings Guide to Darjeeling
, 49

38.
   Hooker,
Flora of British India
, vi.

39.
   Lamb,
British India and Tibet
, 75.

40.
   Hooker,
Himalayan Journals
, 91.

41.
   Ibid., 92.

42.
   Lama,
Story of Darjeeling
, 40–41.

43.
   See the lenghty 1846 memorandum by Under Secretary to the Government of India titled “On the Connection of the Sikkim Rajah with the British Government, and Dr. Campbell’s Reports of the Rajah’s Unfriendliness,” reproduced in Fred Pinn’s
The Road to Destiny
(282–297), for the complete and tangled history of the transaction.

44.
   Darjeeling District Web site, “History.”

45.
   
Journal of the Anthropological Institute
, 385.

46.
   Griffiths,
History of the Indian Tea Industry
, 88.

47.
   Dash,
Bengal District Gazetteer
, 113.

48.
   Ghosh,
Tea Gardens of West Bengal
, 27.

49.
   Dash,
Bengal District Gazetteer
, 114.

CHAPTER 7: TERROIR TO TEACUP

  
1.
   Banerjee and Banerjee,
Darjeeling Tea
, 323.

CHAPTER 8: A DECISION FOR THE MOUTH TO MAKE

  
1.
   
Lord of Darjeeling
.

  
2.
   Yü,
Classic of Tea
, 74.

CHAPTER 9: KNOCKING DOWN

  
1.
   Anindyo Choudhury.

  
2.
   Kumar,
Indigo Plantations and Science
, 128.

  
3.
   “J. Thomas & Company Bets on Tea Bull Run.”

  
4.
   Langewiesche, “Million-Dollar Nose.”

  
5.
   Sanyal, “What I’m Today Is due to Tea.”

  
6.
   “Orthodox, CTC Varieties Quote Higher.”

  
7.
   Priyadershini, “A Tea Time Story.”

  
8.
   J. Thomas & Co. Web site, “People.”

  
9.
   Burke,
Annual Register
, 154.

10.
   Bolton, “EU Grants Darjeeling Protected Geographical Status.”

CHAPTER 10: THE RAJ IN THE HILLS ABOVE

  
1.
   Morris,
Stones of Empire
, 2.

  
2.
   Judd,
Lion and the Tiger
, 101.

  
3.
   Hastings, “How the British Did It.”

  
4.
   Dalrymple, “Plain Tales from British India.”

  
5.
   Ibid.

  
6.
   Ferguson,
Empire
, 39.

  
7.
   Keay,
Honourable Company
, 422.

  
8.
   Robins,
Corporation That Changed the World
, 17.

  
9.
   Dalrymple, “White Mischief.”

10.
   Jack, “Prince William’s Indian DNA Piques Interest.”

11.
   Kipling,
Collected Poems
, 245.

12.
   Allen,
Plain Tales from the Raj
, 46.

13.
   Smith,
Afternoon Tea Book
, 29.

14.
   Dalrymple, “Plain Tales from British India.”

15.
   Ukers,
All About Tea
, 2:67.

16.
   Scott,
Day of the Scorpion
, 256.

17.
   Sherman, “Viceroys and Indians.”

18.
   Kipling,
Plain Tales from the Hills
, 171.

19.
   Dalrymple, “Plain Tales from British India.”

20.
   Das,
India Unbound
, 15.

21.
   Morris,
Heaven’s Command
, 269.

22.
   Moorhouse,
India Britannica
, 145.

23.
   Herbert,
Flora’s Empire
, 61.

24.
   Wright,
Hill Stations of India
, 18.

25.
   Steel and Gardiner,
Complete Indian Housekeeper
, 190.

26.
   Morris,
Heaven’s Command
, 269.

27.
   Morris,
Pax Britannica
, 262.

28.
   Kipling,
Collected Poems
, 81.

29.
   Moorhouse,
India Britannica
, 145.

30.
   Ibid., 146.

31.
   Steel and Gardiner,
Complete Indian Housekeeper
, 53.

32.
   Lama,
Story of Darjeeling
, 145.

33.
   Sannial,
History of Darjeeling
, 95.

34.
   Hobbes,
Imperial India
, 67. John Oliver Hobbes was the pen name for Anglo-American novelist Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie.

35.
   Ibid., 70.

36.
   Orwell,
Burmese Days
, 14.

37.
   Woolf,
Growing
, 135.

38.
   Masani,
Indian Tales of the Raj
, 52.

39.
   Kay,
Far Pavillions
, 146.

40.
   Ibid., 10.

41.
   Herbert,
Flora’s Empire
, 22.

42.
   Lama,
Story of Darjeeling
, 90.

43.
   Ibid., 147.

44.
   Dozey,
Concise History of the Darjeeling
, 209.

45.
   Wright,
Hill Stations of India
, 263.

CHAPTER 11: NOSTALGIA

  
1.
   Lila, “Darjeeling: Tea and Sympathy.”

  
2.
   Burton,
Raj at Table
, 196.

  
3.
   Ibid.

  
4.
   Ibid., 197.

  
5.
   Steel and Gardiner,
Complete Indian Housekeeper
, 58.

  
6.
   Ibid., 59.

  
7.
   Ibid., 305.

  
8.
   Ibid., 304.

  
9.
   James,
Portrait of a Lady
, 3.

10.
   Orwell,
Burmese Days
, 37.

11.
   Brennan,
Curries & Bugles
, 219.

12.
   Baker,
Jigger, Beaker, & Glass
, 38.

13.
   Fleming,
Man with the Golden Gun
, 53.

14.
   Greene,
Heart of the Matter
, 59.

15.
   Ibid., 57.

16.
   Ibid., 191.

17.
   Maugham,
Collected Short Stories
, 91.

CHAPTER 12: PLANTERS AND PLUCKERS

  
1.
   Dozey,
Concise History of Darjeeling
, 207.

  
2.
   Lama,
Story of Darjeeling
, 90.

  
3.
   Kipling,
Plain Tales from the Hills
, 35.

  
4.
   Moxham,
Tea
, 6.

  
5.
   Ibid., 227–28.

  
6.
   Lama,
Story of Darjeeling,
86.

  
7.
   O’Malley,
Bengal District Gazetteer: Darjeeling
, 85.

  
8.
   Much of the information on these German missionaries comes from Pinn’s
Darjeeling Pioneers
, which particularly focuses on the Wernicke-Stölke families.

  
9.
   Ibid., 84.

10.
   Ibid., 89.

11.
   Ibid., 95.

12.
   Pinn,
Louis Mandelli
, 3. Much of the information on Mandelli comes from Pinn’s self-published monograph on the planter.