The peasant production of opium in 19th century India / / by Rolf Bauer.
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 agains...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019] |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Economic History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations and Tables
- Glossary
- Units of Measurement
- Introduction
- 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
- Conclusion
- Back Matter
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.