Man sporting a traditional moustache. Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, 2011.

In 1824 the first tea plant was brought to Ceylon by the British from China. It was planted in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Peradeniya for non-commercial purposes. Further experimental tea plants were brought from Assam and Calcutta in India to Peradeniya in 1839 through the East India Company. The same year the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce was also established followed by the Planters' Association of Ceylon in 1854. In 1867, James Taylor marked the birth of the tea industry in Ceylon by starting a tea plantation in Loolecondera estate in Kandy in 1867. He began the tea plantation on an estate of just 19 acres (76,890 m2). In 1872 he started a fully equipped tea factory in the same Loolecondera estate, and that year the first sale of Loolecondra tea was made in Kandy. In 1873, the first shipment of Ceylon tea, a modest export of some 23 lb (10 kg), arrived in London. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle remarked on the establishment of the tea plantations, “…the tea fields of Ceylon are as true a monument to courage as is the lion at Waterloo”. Pushpa and Lila, tea factory workers in Glenloch tea factory near the town of Nuwara Eliya. Sri lanka, 2014