The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India

The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India
ISBN-10
9004385185
ISBN-13
9789004385184
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
2019-04-09
Publisher
BRILL
Author
Rolf Bauer

Description

In The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India, Rolf Bauer deals with the peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. He shows how the peasants were forced to cultivate this unremunerative crop through a collaboration of the state and the Indian elite.

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