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An historical overview of opium cultivation and changing state attitudes towards the crop in India, 18782000 A.D. [1]

The opium trade yielded enormous profits to the British imperialists during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Anirudh Deshpande [2]
Studies in History [3]
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Agriculture [4], Trade [5], Health [6], Narcotics [7], Legislation [8], History [9], India [10], Arunachal [11], Assam [12], Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [13], Statistics [14]

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