Ceylon Tea Packers

Ceylon Tea Packers

c. 1905
Publisher No.: 
7481
13.70x
8.70cm

[Original caption] The amount of tea exported from Ceylon annually exceeds 150,000,000 lbs., and about 400,000 coolies from Southern India are employed in the tea gardens. The greatest tea districts are Dickoya and Dimbula, where a large number of coolies are employed under the skilled charge of such men as the Cingalese overseer here shown. [end]