Kawal Deep Kour

A History of Intoxication (eBook, ePUB)

Opium in Assam, 1800-1959

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume unearths the emerging pattern of consumption of opium in colonial Assam and the creation of drug-dependency in a social context.
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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000730036
• Artikelnr.: 57590292

Autorenporträt

Kawal Deep Kour is an independent researcher on narcotics and drug policy. She has presented her work at various national and international forums. She is currently Member of Board at the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Tastes that Turned History: Tea, Sugar and Opium -
Intersecting Stories and Intoxicating Connotations 3. Thinking Imperially:
Intertwined Interests of Colonial Science, Medicine and Opium 4. On a Route
Laced with Opium: Networks of Commerce and Consumption in a Colonial
Hinterland 5. From Assam Kanee to Behar Abkaree 6. Opium Reduction
Campaign: 1921-1938 7. Towards Total Prohibition: Opium Eradication
Campaign in Assam, 1935-1959 8. Kaniai Khale Asam Desh: A Reconsideration
of the Nationalist critique of the 'Imperialism of Opium' 9. Conclusion