Chai, or the strange yet wonderful concoction of black tea, sugar and milk, is as Indian as it gets. In reality, though, Tea's popularity amongst Indians was actually the product of a very careful propaganda and advertising campaign by British tea companies. Plantations in India from 1830's were initially meant to grow tea for foreign markets but when demand waned in Britain and the US in the 1890’s, the British decided to look to India to expand their markets and get Indians