Victorian India: Tea Garden of the World - Teachers' Resource Pack

This study provides a range of source material drawn from the British Library's India Office collections to support the teaching of history at Key Stages 2 and 3.

Through original photographs, drawings, letters and commercial documents, this source pack reveals the lives of tea plantaion manager, Captain Fitzgerald, who arrived in India in 1867, and the workers who lived nearby in Baijnath village.

It follows the tea on its journey from the tea garden in India, through the manufacturing process, to auction in the City of London.

The sources are designed to stimulate thinking and discussion of some of the key issues involved in the study of Victorian India: the similarities and differences between Britain and India, the differing fortunes of Britons and Indians, and the constructive and destructive aspects of British imperialism.