- 320 pages
- English
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About this book
This volume unearths the emerging pattern of consumption of opium in colonial Assam and the creation of drug-dependency in a social context. It analyses the competing forces of the empire which played a key role in the production and distribution of opium; national politics alongside international drug diplomacy and how these together shaped the discourse of opium in Assam; the wider implications of opium production and consumption in the agrarian economy and the narrative of the nationalist critique of intoxication.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Usage
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tastes that Turned History: Tea, Sugar and Opium — Intersecting Stories and Intoxicating Connotations
- 3. Thinking Imperially: Intertwined Interests of Colonial Science, Medicine and Opium
- 4. On a Route Laced with Opium: Networks of Commerce and Consumption in a Colonial Hinterland
- 5. From Assam Kanee to Behar Abkaree
- 6. Opium Reduction Campaign: 1921–1938
- 7. Towards Total Prohibition: Opium Eradication Campaign in Assam, 1935–1959
- 8. Kaniai Khale Asam Desh: A Reconsideration of the Nationalist Critique of the ‘Imperialism of Opium’
- 9. Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index