In the modern era, Western colonialism has been a vehicle for the diffusion of a wide range of narcotic substances, but of all the drugs promoted by colonialism, opium occupies a unique place. Smuggling as Subversion is the first comprehensive account of the opium industry in western India during the colonial period, from its beginnings to the mid-19th century. This is an in-depth examination of the use of opium during colonial times, and at the same time the fascinating story of how Indian merchants developed a smuggling enterprise that subverted the East India Company's monopoly in the drug, setting in motion a chain of events that led to the first Opium War in China. Smuggling as Subversion is gripping and essential reading for students and scholars of the history of narcotics, India, or colonialism.

Smuggling as Subversion: Colonialism, Indian Merchants, and the Politics of Opium, 1790-1843

Business & Money

Farooqui, Amar

Economics

Lexington Books

With reference to Malwa, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, India.

Smuggling as Subversion:Colonialism, Indian Merchants and the Politics of Opium

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

New Age International

It was primarily opium that linked Bombay to the international capitalist economy and the western Indian hinterland in the nineteenth century. The essays in this book explore the linkages between the opium enterprise of western India and the creation of early Victorian Bombay. They dwell on some of the prominent features of urban development which reflect the relationship of collaboration and conflict between the capitalist class of the city and British colonial rule. They show opium as the crucial factor in the emergence of Bombay as a metropolis.

Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay

Three Essays Collective

The Colonial Subjugation of India

History

Asia

Aleph Book Company

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