A History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959

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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