TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bauer, Rolf
TI  - The peasant production of opium in nineteenth-century India
SN  - 9789360809652
U1  - 338.17375 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Manohar Publishers
KW  - Opium trade - India - history -19th century
KW  - Peasants - India - economic conditions
KW  - Economic history - British colonies
N2  - The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-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.



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