Eastern Customs
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Eastern Customs

The Customs Service in British Malaya and the Hunt for Opium

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Eastern Customs

The Customs Service in British Malaya and the Hunt for Opium

About this book

Generations of young Britons made their careers in Malaya. Some scaled the heights of the administrative service and are well recorded in the formal histories. Others served in less high profile but equally challenging departments, carrying out the work of government in difficult and sometimes dangerous circumstances. Eastern Customs traces the fascinating story of the Customs Service in British Malaya and those who made up its ranks. The service had a brief but colourful history from its introduction in 1910. For the next three decades, it took on the opium monopoly and became responsible for its importation, processing and distribution. It was a lucrative business, providing more than 50 per cent of Government revenue. But as international opposition to drugs hardened the service controlled and eventually moved to eliminate the trade, becoming an anti-narcotics force after 1946.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9781850438441
eBook ISBN
9780857712301
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Business General
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acronyms and abbreviations
  5. Glossary
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. Map of Malaya
  9. Part One: The Setting
  10. Chapter 1: A Tropical peninsula
  11. Part Two: The Service
  12. Chapter 2: A difficult birth
  13. Chapter 3: Growing up
  14. Chapter 4: The expatriates arrive
  15. Chapter 5: A violent interruption
  16. Chapter 6: Back to work
  17. Chapter 7: Merdeka
  18. Part Three: The Opium Problem
  19. Chapter 8: Wholesale monopoly
  20. Chapter 9: Retail monopoly
  21. Chapter 10: Prohibition
  22. Part Four: The Course of Duty
  23. Chapter 11: The demon drink
  24. Chapter 12: Up in smoke
  25. Chapter 13: Revenues and restrictrions
  26. Part Five: Off Duty
  27. Chapter 14: Life and Leisure
  28. Epilogue
  29. Appendix 1, Statement of revenues collected in Penang, 1809/10
  30. Appendix II, Straits Settlements
  31. Appendix III, Federated Malay States
  32. Appendix IV, Federated Malay States ans Straits Settlements
  33. Appendix V, HM Customs Singapore 1957: Administration
  34. Appendix VI, Federation of Malaya Customs
  35. Appendix VII, Straits Settlements Customs Revenue 1936-1938
  36. Appendix VIII, Federation of Malaya Customs and Excise Revenues
  37. Appendix IX, Singapore Customs and Excise Revenues 1953-1957
  38. Appendix X, The opium problem
  39. Appendix XI, Preventive action: Singapore
  40. Appendix XII, Licensed premises
  41. Sources
  42. Notes
  43. Index