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The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India

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    Author(s)Rolf Bauer
    PublisherManohar
    ISBN9789360809652
    BindingHardcover
    LanguageEnglish
    Publish YearJanuary 2024

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    Manohar The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-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 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.