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Publisher | MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS |
Publication Year | 2019 |
ISBN-13 | 9789388540254 |
ISBN-10 | 9789388540254 |
Binding | Hardcover |
Edition | FIRST |
Number of Pages | 320 Pages |
Language | (English) |
Dimensions (Cms) | 22x14x2 |
Weight (grms) | 520 |
This book is an attempt to unearth a critical relationship between a crucial lever of colonialism in Asia and a frontier province full of tea gardens and vast fields of opium poppy. The book analyses in a comprehensive manner the pattern of opium consumption in colonial Assam within an imperialism-centred paradigm.
The present volume is premised on explaining several queries that revolve around the emerging pattern of consumption of opium in colonial Assam and the creation of drug-dependency in a social context. It analyses in a comprehensive manner 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.
Kawal Deep Kour
MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS