Movie with reference to Gillanders

Guiana 1838

Rating:	No Rating
Genre:	Drama, Art/Foreign
Release Date:	September 24, 2004
Running time:	120 minutes
Cast:	Kumar Gaurav, Aarti Bathija
Director:	Rohit Jagessar
Writer:	Rohit Jagessar
Distributor:	RBC Radio, LLC.

Description: The abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean in 1834 prompts The Gillanders, Arbuthnot & Company in Calcutta, a part of the East India Company, to recruit Coolies from India to fill the resulting labor void. The company hires Sinha, a fierce small timer who sells dreams of El Dorado to the unsuspecting, impoverished Coolies. They are signed to five-year contracts as indentured servants. Upon arrival the Coolies' arrival in British Guiana in 1838, the British planters promptly enslave them to ensure that the growth of sugar in the British West Indies will continue uninterrupted. John Scoble of the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society arrives on the colony a year later to discover a new form of slavery; this time on the backs of Indians.

from web site http://www.infoplease.com/movies/guiana-1838/46941

Information Memorandum for Gilllanders

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:ZRZvMuQv8qEJ:www.bseindia.com/BSEdata/ipo_downloads/GACL.pdf+jutlibari&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=55

Description from the web site of Gillanders Arbuthnot & Co. Ltd. - Tea Division

Welcome to Gillanders Arbuthnot & Co. Ltd. - Tea Division: "Jutlibari Tea Estate
Tea DivisionThe Jutlibari tea estate has already earned international fame. It has not only bagged the coveted Tea Board awards several times but also the “Arch of Europe Gold Star” awards for excellence in quality at the international level. The estate can produce both CTC and Orthodox varieties of tea. The Orthodox variety is primarily exported to Germany.

Jutlibari is located just 8 Km. From Duliajan in Tingi Circle of Dibrugarh district in Assam. In order to further improve the quality of tea, older sections of the garden have been replaced with high yielding variety of clones. A meticulously planned water management project has kept the water logging level in the tea estate under control. The estate has a total grant area of 707.47 hectares and produces 1.07 million kgs of tea annually."