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The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India
Contributor(s): Bauer (Author)

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 ISBN: 9004385177     ISBN-13: 9789004385177
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE: $144.40  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- History | World - General
- History | Social History
Series: Library of Economic History
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.10 lbs) 236 pages
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated
 
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Winner of the 2019 Michael Mitterauer-Prize for best monograph

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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