Origin India: Kangra Valley

The Little Tea that Could Kangra Valley, Dharamsala, India The Other Himalaya A scant 2,000 kilometers west of Darjeeling, on the opposite side of the Indian subcontinent, lays a scenic valley of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, a place steeped in Hindu mythology.  The Kangra Valley is nestled in the Dhauladhar (Hindi, White Mountain) range of the western Hima

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5 Comments

  1. Vikas Thakur
    on February 19, 2020 at 11:34 pm •Reply

    Excellent research

  2. Dia
    on June 28, 2020 at 7:23 am •Reply

    Amazing! Ive been doing some research on the Kangra Valley and its safe to say that this article helped me a lot! Great research done.

  3. D S Bedi
    on June 9, 2021 at 1:42 pm •Reply

    Great
    I appreciate your article because I live in Kangra and have a green tea online business from last couple of years
    You can find best Kangra green tea online http://www.kangravaleytea.com

  4. Tapan Chakraborty
    on January 22, 2022 at 5:22 am •Reply

    Kangra tea did not originate in India as has been picturised. Kangra tea has been planted using tea plants stolen from China, while the plants from which local tribes used to make tea at Bashahar in Punjab in Imperial India has been ignored by the botanists of East India company for unknown reasons. Bashahar tea was popular in Tibet, Nepal and Afghanistan.

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  5. Vikas Thakur
    on November 20, 2025 at 10:07 am •Reply

    Why have you not covered Bundla Tea Estate , Palampur?

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