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A woman plucking tea, a basket on her back, bending over the bushes, with the words “Plucking Tea” in Hindi and English, on a 15 paise stamp.
Plucking Tea
This stamp belongs to the definitive series of 1965 to 1975, India’s everyday stamps of the time, each showing a scene from Indian life, industry, nature or heritage. This value was issued on 15 August 1965. India is one of the world’s largest producers of tea, grown on estates in Assam, in the hills of Darjeeling and in the Nilgiris of the south. The leaves are picked by hand, mostly by women, who take only the top two leaves and a bud from each shoot and toss them into the baskets on their backs.
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