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| 1 | Malwa opium : the problem | 13 |
| East India Company's opium policy in the pre-Malwa era | 13 | |
| Bengal opium vs. Malwa opium | 16 | |
| App. A | Note on opium weights | 29 |
| 2 | The setting | 35 |
| Malwa at the beginning of the nineteenth century | 35 | |
| Rulers, bankers, merchants, soldiers | 43 | |
| The commercial world of Western India | 52 | |
| App. B | John Malcolm on Malwa speculators | 63 |
| 3 | From poppy fields to Malwa markets | 71 |
| Cultivation of opium in Malwa | 71 | |
| Processing and sale | 95 | |
| The wholesale and retail trade | 101 | |
| 4 | The politics of opium and the Malwa Opium Agency (1821-1831) | 117 |
| Back to basics? : the company's opium trade in Malwa | 117 | |
| Negotiating opium | 122 | |
| 5 | Smuggled Malwa opium and indigenous business enterprise | 141 |
| 6 | Daman to Macao : the Portuguese connection | 161 |
| 7 | Violence and reversal of policy | 181 |
| Violent undercurrents and collapse of monopoly | 181 | |
| Imperfect containment : 1831-1843 | 193 | |
| 8 | The ascendancy of Bombay | 209 |
| Bombay : opium capital of Western India | 209 | |
| Malwa opium and the rise of the Indian capitalist class | 221 | |
| App. I | List of merchants/firms engaged in Malwa opium trade, c. 1800-1830 | 231 |
| App. II | Proforma for opium passport, 1831 | 241 |
| App. III | List of prominent Indian merchants/firms engaged in Malwa opium trade at Bombay, 1844 | 243 |
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Thomas Baker
reviewed Smuggling as Subversion: Colonialism, Indian Merchants, and the Politics of Opium, 1790-1843 on September 01, 2015
Smuggling as Subversion: Colonialism, Indian Merchants, and the Politics of Opium, 1790-1843
The author puts forth an interesting and simple argument that when faced with an economic crisis, authoritarian regimes (although I suppose democratic regimes can also be included) abide by the "political logic" of implementing adjustment policies to retain the support of their core supporters, be they fixed capital, mobile capital or labour. But when a regime's core supporters consist of different factions and are divided on what policies they prefer, the regime will not be able to satisfy its core supporters (or at least a part of them), start to lose support and possibly collapse.
It is perhaps evident that this book is intended as academic literature, in view of how several parts of it are on the author's research methodology and logic. In fact, one chapter actually discussed in some detail on how the author did a regressive analysis to get more generalised findings!
However, if one skips through the academic language, this book is still quite readable for a general public audience.
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