L'opium dans l'Assam

A History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800–1959 

Kawal Deep Kour

Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 12, 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-0367417703

This volume unearths the emerging pattern of consumption of opium in colonial Assam and the creation of drug-dependency in a social context. It analyses the competing forces of the empire which played a key role in the production and distribution of opium; national politics alongside international drug diplomacy and how these together shaped the discourse of opium in Assam; the wider implications of opium production and consumption in the agrarian economy and the narrative of the nationalist critique of intoxication.