The Peasant Production Of Opium In Nineteenth Century India
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Author | : Rolf Bauer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2019-04-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9004385185 |
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.
Author | : Andrew B. Liu |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300252331 |
A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries “Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also intervenes in larger debates about the nature of capitalism, global modernity, and global history.”— Alexander F. Day, Occidental College Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.
Author | : Hans Derks |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 851 |
Release | : 2012-04-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004221581 |
Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.
Author | : Lynn Hollen Lees |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2017-12-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107038405 |
This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.
Author | : David Arnold |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2016-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107126975 |
An analysis of the challenge that India's poison culture posed for colonial rule and toxicology's creation of a public role for science.
Author | : Maziyar Ghiabi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2019-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108475450 |
Offers new and cutting-edge research on the role of drugs in Iranian society and government. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Alan Lester |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108426204 |
Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.
Author | : Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107013518 |
Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.
Author | : Thomas A Timberg |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2015-05-22 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9351187136 |
In the nineteenth century, a tiny community from the deserts of Rajasthan spread out to every corner of India. The Marwaris controlled much of the country’s inland trade by the time of the First World War. They then turned their hand to industry and, by the 1970s, owned most of India’s private industrial assets. Today, Marwari businessmen account for a quarter of the Indian names on the Forbes billionaires list.// What makes the Marwaris so successful? Is it their indomitable enterprise, or their incredible appetite for risk? In this new book, Thomas Timberg shows how the Marwaris rely on a centuries-old system for conserving and growing capital which has stood them in good stead, alongside a strong sense of business ethics which has earned them respect.// Family businesses in general and the Marwaris in particular might have a vital role to play in shaping India’s economic future.
Author | : B. B. Chaudhuri |
Publisher | : Pearson Education India |
Total Pages | : 988 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Geschichte |
ISBN | : 9788131716885 |