Munnar has a colonial legacy , not very obvious in the modern days.
[table caption=”Timeline of Munnar’s tea history” ]
#|Year|Significant even
1|1816|Lt Benjamin Swayne Ward and Lt Eyre Connor survey the terrain between Cochin and Madurai, leading to the discovery of the High Range.
2|1817|Ascent into the High Range begins, marking the center of the district.
3|1817|Camp is established at the confluence of three rivers, marking the district’s center.
4|1862|Col Douglas Hamilton climbs Anamudi, exploring the hill country and establishing the plateau known as Hamilton’s Plateau.
5|1877|John Daniel Munro reports on the High Range’s potential for cultivation : coffee, tea, and cinchona.
6|1879|Henry Turner, Thambi A.W. Turner, and John Daniel Munro form a society and clear forest land for cultivation.
7|1881|Planters like Baron George Otto Von Rosenberg, A.H. Sharp, C. Donovan, E.J. Fowler, C.O. Master, and G.W. Claridge, establish estates in the High Range.
8|1889|First European women arrive in the hills.
9|1894|James Muir and others negotiate the purchase of shares of the Society.
10|1897|Kannan Devan Hills Produce Company becoming a major player in the region.
11|1902|Area under cultivation grows to over 28,000 acres.
12|1964|Tata’s start the first instant tea factory in the country.
13|1971|Kanan Devan Hills Company retains most of its land in the region.
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