:Scientificly there is DNA inspection of tea plant from China and India.    The DNA inspection reveal that tea used by India to process black tea are originate from China. Although native tea plants exists in India mountains, it is never put into use. In addition, there is no record from India history about tea, until British colonisation. 
 :I suggest we leave the history context as it until we can get the species name use in the DNA research. Use sltan:sltan 17 Feb 2005.