The Political Economy of Opium Smuggling in Early Nineteenth Century India
Leakage or Resistance
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3665809 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Claude Markovits (autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2009 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 89-111 |
| Data de publicação | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x07003344 |
| OpenAlex | W1983048656 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 15 |
| Referências citadas | 11 |
This article looks at the political economy of opium smuggling in India in the first decades of the nineteenth century, in particular in relation to Sindh, one of the last independent polities in the subcontinent. After a description of the smuggling of 'Malwa' opium (grown in the princely states of Central India) into China-in defiance of the monopoly of the East India Company over 'Bengal' or 'Patna' opium, grown in Bihar-it considers the role of Indian merchants and capitalists in its emergence and development, and critiques the argument put forward in a recent book by Amar Farooqi that it represented both a form of 'subversion' and that it contributed decisively to capital accumulation in Western India. This article concludes by analysing the role of the opium trade in integrating Sindh into the British imperial trading system, arguing that it was more effective in boosting Empire than in nurturing indigenous capitalism in India
Ancient history · BENGAL · China · Economics · Economy · Hegemony · Indian subcontinent · Indigenous · Opium · Political science · Politics · Asian Studies and History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Drugs as Imperial Crop
From Reluctance to Reliance
Princely urbanism and the colonial city
Laboratory of Empire
Chen Mengzhao's storeroom in Park Street, Calcutta. Wartime India-China smuggling, 1942–1945
The drinking habits of our countrymen’
Smuggling India
The making of a ‘narco-state’
Opium and Migration
Poor Man's Crop
The Trans-Asian Pathways of 'Oriental Products
Vernacular Capitalism and Intellectual History in a Gujarati Account of China, 1860-68
The Indian Economy and the British Empire in the Company Period
Breaking free? The evolution of intra-Asian trade at the dawn of globalization (1795-1839)
Boire l'opium
Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy
The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750–1947
Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion
British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-42
The Business World of Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy
Textiles, bullion and other trades of Goa
British Annexation of Sind in 1843
The Indian Empire and Peasant Production of Opium in the Nineteenth Century
British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800-42
Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy
British Opium Policy in China and India
| Obras citantes distintas | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 1,07 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 14 |