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The peasant production of opium in nineteenth-century India / by Rolf Bauer.
Lippincott Library HD9675.O653 I63 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bauer, Rolf, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Library of economic history ; v. 12.
- Library of economic history, 1877-3206 ; volume 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Opium trade--India--History--19th century.
- Opium trade.
- Peasants--India--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Peasants.
- Forced labor--India--History--19th century.
- Forced labor.
- Power (Social sciences)--India--History--19th century.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Economic conditions.
- History.
- India--Economic conditions--19th century.
- India.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Economic conditions.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Economic policy.
- Economic policy.
- British colonies.
- Economic history.
- Peasants--Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 220 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Summary:
- "The Peasant Production of Opium in 19th Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer not only shows that the peasants cultivated poppy against a substantial loss but he also reveals how they were coerced into the production of this drug. By dissecting the economic and social power relations on a local level, this study explains how a triangle of debt, the colonial state's power and social dependencies in the village formed the coercive mechanisms that transformed the peasants into opium producers. The result is a book that adds to our understanding of peasant economies in a colonial context"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The creation of a system
- The functioning of a system
- A local-level analysis of an opium district : Saran
- The costs and benefits of poppy cultivation
- The mechanics of a system : incentives, coercion and dependence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bauer, Rolf, 1984- author. Peasant production of opium in nineteenth-century India
- ISBN:
- 9789004385177
- 9004385177
- OCLC:
- 1078883541
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