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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/the-victorian-scots-who-brought-opium-to-china-1-4186123 "The Victorian Scots who brought opium to China"] by Alison Campsie 25 July 2016 ''The Scotsman''
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/addorimss/t/019addor0004701u00000000.html  The opium godown or store within its compound at Patna] [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/addorimss/t/019addor0004702u00000000.html An interior view].  Watercolours from British Library Online Gallery
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/addorimss/t/019addor0004701u00000000.html  The opium godown or store within its compound at Patna] [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/addorimss/t/019addor0004702u00000000.html An interior view].  Watercolours from British Library Online Gallery
*[http://www.drugtext.org/Table/The-Opium-Department-Report-India/ Report of the Opium Department India 1881] Drugtext.org
*[http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rcs/opium/Captions.html Opium: A "morally indefensible trade in a "horrible drug"] Cambridge University Library
*[http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rcs/opium/Captions.html Opium: A "morally indefensible trade in a "horrible drug"] Cambridge University Library
*[http://www.maritimeheritage.org/news/opium.html The Opium Trade] Maritime Heritage Project
*[http://www.maritimeheritage.org/news/opium.html The Opium Trade] Maritime Heritage Project
*[http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2310/stories/20060602000307600.htm “Narcotics and empire”] from Frontline-The Hindu Volume 23 - Issue 10: 20 May - 2 June 2006. A review of the book  ''Opium City, The Making of Early Victorian Bombay'' by Amar Farooqui. Look in the website Archives for this issue if the link is unstable.
*[https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2236-46332016000300052 "The Global Career of Indian Opium and Local Destinies"] by  Amar Farooqui  ''SciELO Almanack  no.14 Guarulhos Sept./Dec. 2016''. scielo.br. This paper looks at the historical circumstances in which the western and central regions of the Indian subcontinent became part of the global opium enterprise during the early nineteenth century. The state of Gwalior, located in central India, ruled by the Sindia dynasty, emerged as the largest supplier of the drug to private exporters operating on the West Coast. This was known as the  '''Malwa opium''' trade, (the Malwa  Agency being a a division of [[Central India|Central India Agency]].)  Farooqui was the author of the earlier book ''Smuggling as subversion : colonialism, Indian merchants, and the politics of opium, 1790-1843'' by Amar Farooqui c 1998. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01009242814 [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Smuggling_as_Subversion/pAJDrdP6sikC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover  Sample pages 2005 edition] Google Books.
:[[Bombay (City)|Bombay]] became the commercial centre of the Malwa opium trade, and opium became the basis for the prosperity of Bombay.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20110727093134/http://www.hinduonnet.com:80/fline/fl2310/stories/20060602000307600.htm “Narcotics and empire”] from Frontline-''The Hindu'' Volume 23 - Issue 10: 20 May - 2 June 2006, now archived; [https://www.academia.edu/6333316/Book_review_Opium_City_The_Rise_of_Early_Victorian_Bombay_by_Amar_Farooqui Article by Dipesh Karmarkar] academia.edu. Discussions of the book  ''Opium City, The Making of Early Victorian Bombay'' by Amar Farooqui 2006, available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01013423658 .</ref> 
*[http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1956-01-01_2_page009.html “The manufacture and sale of opium and opium alkaloids at the Ghazipur factory”] by S. K. Vardhan Manager, Government Opium and Alkaloids Factory, Ghazipur (U.P.). written in 1956
*[http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1956-01-01_2_page009.html “The manufacture and sale of opium and opium alkaloids at the Ghazipur factory”] by S. K. Vardhan Manager, Government Opium and Alkaloids Factory, Ghazipur (U.P.). written in 1956
*This [http://www.business-standard.com/india/news//in-british-timesopium-trade-protected-peopletaxes//369029 link] (business-standard.com) states between 1870 and 1900 the opium trade protected the people from taxation, due to the amount the government was earning
*This [http://www.business-standard.com/india/news//in-british-timesopium-trade-protected-peopletaxes//369029 link] (business-standard.com) states between 1870 and 1900 the opium trade protected the people from taxation, due to the amount the government was earning
*[https://commons.und.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2535&context=theses ''A brief historiography of the opium trade with a new evaluation of Dr. William H. Park’s Opinions of over 100 physicians on the use of opium in China''] by Kimberly A. Gasparini 2014  Master of Arts  Thesis, University of North Dakota.
*[https://www.houghton.hk/?p=84 "Opium 1793 – 1838"] in three parts from "A Peoples' History 1793 – 1844 from the newspapers" houghton.hk. From Chinese region newspapers.
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
* ''Foreign Mud: being an account of the opium imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s & the Anglo-Chinese War that followed''‎ by Maurice Collis 1946. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209009 Archive.org mirror version] from Digital Library of India. 1968 reprint editions: [https://archive.org/details/foreignmudopiumi0000coll/mode/2up 1st file], [https://archive.org/details/foreignmud0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd file]. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*British Parliamentary Papers:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ezFDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Appendix to the Report on the Affairs of the East India Company. Volume 4: Administration of Monopolies. Opium and Salt: 11 October 1831''] Google Books
*British Parliamentary Papers:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ezFDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Appendix to the Report on the Affairs of the East India Company. Volume 4: Administration of Monopolies. Opium and Salt: 11 October 1831''] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZNT3ohiMQaMC&printsec=frontcover ''The opium trade: including a sketch of its history, extent, effects, etc., as carried on in India and China''] by Nathan Allen M.D. 2nd Edition 1853 (first published 1850)
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZNT3ohiMQaMC&printsec=frontcover ''The opium trade: including a sketch of its history, extent, effects, etc., as carried on in India and China''] by Nathan Allen M.D. 2nd Edition 1853 (first published 1850)
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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sijCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 ''‪Indian revenue from Indian opium ; Chinese money at the expense of Chinese life ; British honour or British disgrace: questions which should be considered in the treaty to be concluded with China''‬] by Captain Tyler R E  1857 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sijCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 ''‪Indian revenue from Indian opium ; Chinese money at the expense of Chinese life ; British honour or British disgrace: questions which should be considered in the treaty to be concluded with China''‬] by Captain Tyler R E  1857 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tRNcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP1 ''The opium trade in China, by an eyewitness <nowiki>[</nowiki>J. Johnston<nowiki>]</nowiki>: to which is added, A voice from India on the opium question <nowiki>[</nowiki>extr. from 'Notes on the opium question', by McL. Wylie<nowiki>]</nowiki>'']  by James Johnston, Macleod Wylie 1858 (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tRNcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP1 ''The opium trade in China, by an eyewitness <nowiki>[</nowiki>J. Johnston<nowiki>]</nowiki>: to which is added, A voice from India on the opium question <nowiki>[</nowiki>extr. from 'Notes on the opium question', by McL. Wylie<nowiki>]</nowiki>'']  by James Johnston, Macleod Wylie 1858 (Google Books)
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XpVFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA513 "An Explanation of the Peiho Massacre"] page 513, ''Volume II, From London to Lucknow: with memoranda of mutinies, marches, flights, fights, and conversations. To which is added, an opium-smuggler's explanation of the Peiho Massacre'' by  A Chaplain in H M Indian Service [catalogued James Aberigh- Mackay] (elsewhere stated to be  [J. Mackay afterwards Aberigh-Mackay])  1860. Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023257532 ''A Cruise in an Opium Clipper''] by Captain Lindsay Anderson 1891 Archive.org.  He joined the opium clipper 1859 at Shanghai.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cPQ2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP15 ‪''Papers Relating to the Opium Question''‬] Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing 1870 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cPQ2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP15 ‪''Papers Relating to the Opium Question''‬] Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing 1870 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/britishopiumpol01turngoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''British opium policy and its results to India and China''] by F. S. Turner 1876 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/britishopiumpol01turngoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''British opium policy and its results to India and China''] by F. S. Turner 1876 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/opiumquestionrev00moul#page/n3/mode/2up ''The opium question: a review of the opium policy of Great Britain, and its results to India and China''] by the Rev. Arthur E. Moule 1877 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/opiumquestionrev00moul#page/n3/mode/2up ''The opium question: a review of the opium policy of Great Britain, and its results to India and China''] by the Rev. Arthur E. Moule 1877 Archive.org
*''Manual of Opium Husbandry: For the use of Officers in the Government of Behar and Benares'' by John Scott, Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens , Calcutta, (on special duty) attached to the Opium Department 1877 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53305 ''Manual of Opium Husbandry: For the use of Officers in the Government of Behar and Benares''] by John Scott, Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens , Calcutta, (on special duty) attached to the Opium Department 1877. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/opium/complete.html ''In an Opium Factory''] by Rudyard Kipling 1888 (eBooks, University of Adelaide).   [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_opium1.htm In an Opium Factory] from the Kipling Society with comments on the text.
*[https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Table/The-Opium-Department-Report-India/index.html  ''Report of the Opium Department India 1881''] abuse-drug.com
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.3058/page/n323/mode/2up ''In an Opium Factory''] by Rudyard Kipling, page 311 ''From Sea To Sea  and Other Sketches Volume II'' 1938, originally published 1888. Archive.org.    [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_opium1.htm "In an Opium Factory"] from the Kipling Society with comments on the text.
*[https://archive.org/details/ashorthistoryofl00jeha ''A Short history of the lives of Bombay opium smokers''] by Rustom Pestanji Jehangir 1893 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/ashorthistoryofl00jeha#page/n15/mode/2up/search/Sikh Page viii] and [https://archive.org/stream/ashorthistoryofl00jeha#page/44/mode/2up/search/Sikh page 44-45]. Details and a comment  about the use of opium by Sikh soldiers in the [[Indian Army]].
*''First report of the Royal Commission on Opium with Minutes of evidence and appendices'' Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023451234#page/n7/mode/2up Volume 1 Evidence taken in London September 1893] 1894. Evidence taken in India:[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073053849#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 2, in 1893]. [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073053856#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 3, in  January 1894], [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073053864#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 4, 29 January-22  Feb 1894], [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073053872#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 5 Appendices] 1894
*''First report of the Royal Commission on Opium with Minutes of evidence and appendices'' Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023451234#page/n7/mode/2up Volume 1 Evidence taken in London September 1893] 1894. Evidence taken in India:[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073053849#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 2, in 1893]. [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073053856#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 3, in  January 1894], [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073053864#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 4, 29 January-22  Feb 1894], [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073053872#page/n5/mode/2up  Volume 5 Appendices] 1894
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073053872#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 6 Final Report] 1895.  
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073053872#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 6 Final Report] 1895.  
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023283280#page/n9/mode/2up  The report of the Royal Commission on Opium compared with the evidence from China that was submitted to the Commission : an examination and an appeal] by Arnold Foster 1899 Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023283280#page/n9/mode/2up  The report of the Royal Commission on Opium compared with the evidence from China that was submitted to the Commission : an examination and an appeal] by Arnold Foster 1899 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.502800/page/n1  ''The Opium Manual Vol. 5: Bihar: Factory Procedure Forms For The Guidance Of The Officers Of The Patna Opium Factory''] 1905. Archive.org, Public  Library of India Collection.
* The opium trade is included in''The International Relations of the Chinese Empire'' by Hosea Ballou Morse. ''I The Period of Conflict, 1834-1860.  (II. The Period of Submission, 1861-1893. III. The period of Subjection, 1894-1911''). Published 1910 to 1918.
:[https://archive.org/details/internationalrel00mors/page/n5/mode/2up Volume I] (probably 2nd edition), [https://archive.org/details/internationalrel01mors/page/n3/mode/2up  Vol. I, 2nd file, but missing title page] (appears to have been author/publishing decision); ([https://archive.org/details/internationalrel02mors Volume II]; [https://archive.org/details/internationalrel03mors/page/n5/mode/2up Volume III]) All Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/truthaboutindian00grearich#page/n1/mode/2up ''The truth about Indian opium''] by G. Graham Dixon. Printed for and issued by the Industries and Overseas Department, India Office 1922 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/truthaboutindian00grearich#page/n1/mode/2up ''The truth about Indian opium''] by G. Graham Dixon. Printed for and issued by the Industries and Overseas Department, India Office 1922 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023283546#page/n7/mode/2up ''Drug smuggling and taking in India and Burma''] by  Roy K Anderson 1922 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023283546#page/n7/mode/2up ''Drug smuggling and taking in India and Burma''] by  Roy K Anderson 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/britishtradeopen0000gree/page/n7/mode/2up ''British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800-42''] by Michael Greenberg  1951. [https://archive.org/details/britishtradeope00gree [1979<nowiki>]</nowiki> reprint edition]. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/opiumwar184018420000fayp/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Opium War, 1840-1842 : Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the early part of the nineteenth century and the war by which they forced her gates ajar''] by Peter Ward Fay. 1997 reprint edition, originally published 1975. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/flowersinbloodst00lati/mode/2up ''Flowers in the Blood : the Story of Opium''] by Dean Latimer and Jeff Goldberg 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/opiumwarsaddicti00hane/mode/2up ''Opium Wars : the addiction of one empire and the corruption of another''] by W Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello  2002.  Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*[http://www.survivorlibrary.com/?page_id=3542 Survivor Library: Opium] Links to pdf downloads, mainly written mid to late 1800s. survivorlibrary.com. Note: it is possible some of these books may be available to read online  on alternative sites such as Archive.org
====Fiction====
* ''The Ibis Trilogy'' by Amitav Ghosh
**[https://archive.org/details/seaofpoppies0000ghos/mode/2up ''Sea of Poppies''] by Amitav Ghosh 2008. [https://archive.org/details/seaofpoppies00ghos 2nd file]
*:Article:[https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/01/15/adventures-in-the-opium-trade/ "Adventures in the Opium Trade"] by Cathleen Schine January 15, 2009 nybooks.com.
**''River of Smoke'' by Amitav Ghosh 2011.[https://archive.org/details/riverofsmoke0000ghos_f5n4 1st file], [https://archive.org/details/riverofsmoke0000ghos/mode/2up 2nd file], [https://archive.org/details/riverofsmoke0000ghos_s7j1/mode/2up 3rd file]
**[https://archive.org/details/floodoffire0000ghos ''Flood of Fire'']  by Amitav Ghosh 2015.
:All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.


== Recommended Reading ==
==References==
''Foreign mud: being and account of the opium imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s & the Anglo-Chinese War that followed''‎ by Maurice Collis 1946 reprinted by Kessinger Publishing Co 2004 ISBN 1417976004 and ISBN 978-1417976003
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=DK78eANlr-AC&printsec=frontcover&dq=foreign+mud&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false Limited Preview] Google Books. The full book is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.


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Latest revision as of 04:51, 24 October 2020

A lucrative opium trade existed between China and Britain in the 19th century. British sales of opium in large amounts began in 1781 and between 1821 and 1837 sales increased fivefold. Two 'Opium Wars' punctuated the period, their outcomes redefining the trade.

History

The East India Company held the monopoly of the opium trade in Bengal and supplied large quantities of the drug to China. One of the main commodities that Britain had wanted from China was tea as this had become a fashionable drink in Europe and although there was some tea grown in India, tea planting was not yet on a large scale. As demand for tea increased, the East India Company realised that a good revenue could be obtained if it was able to entice China to supply directly to them . The inducement was to be the Indian grown opium.

It was not until the 1820s that the potential of an Indian tea trade was considered and, therefore, continuing trade with China, which operated via Canton, was important to the EIC. When the Chinese government became worried about the effects of opium addiction and took steps to prevent the importation of opium, the EIC agreed not to carry the drugs on their ships but, in reality deals were done with the owners of Country Ships who continued to smuggle the drug into China on their vessels. As the country ships were under licence to the East India Company this meant the company still had control of the sale of opium. This practice continued until 1833 when the trading monopoly of the East India company was abolished - but by then the first Tea Plantation in Assam had been established.

Opium Wars

Opium addiction in China had become such a problem that to prevent imports the Qing Dynasty closed the waterway up to Canton and seized over 1 million kilograms of opium, requiring merchants to enter into a bond not to deal in the drug. The Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China tried to negotiate with the Chinese but was continually rebuffed. Naval confrontations took place and Britain sent an expeditionary force from Singapore, capturing Canton and Shanghai. The war ended in August 1842 with the Treaty of Nanking which opened five treaty ports to trade, ceded Hong Kong and granted an indemnity to Britain.

The Western Powers sought to renegotiate their commercial treaties with China. The British wanted all of China open to merchants, legalization of the opium trade and exemption of import tariffs. The Qing Government refused and relations deteriorated. The French, Russians and Americans also became involved. In the First Campaign British and French forces captured Canton and took the Taku Forts outside Tianjin. There was a temporary end to hostilities with the Treaty of Tianjin (giving extensive rights to the Western Powers) but the Qing Government rejected the treaty and this led to a Second Campaign. In June 1859 Anglo-French forces failed to take the Taku Forts but later captured Tianjin. In September the Chinese were defeated and the Summer Palace in Peking destroyed. The Convention of Peking ratified the Treaty of Tianjin, the opium trade was legalized, China was opened to western merchants and Britain and France were paid a huge indemnity.

FIBIS resources

  • Review by Peter Bailey of the book Indigo and Opium: Two Remarkable Families and Fortunes Won and Lost by Miles Macnair (2013). The review is in FIBIS Journal Number 32 (Autumn 2014), pages 50-51. For details of how to access the review, see FIBIS Journals.

External links

Bombay became the commercial centre of the Malwa opium trade, and opium became the basis for the prosperity of Bombay.[1]

Historical books online

  • Foreign Mud: being an account of the opium imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s & the Anglo-Chinese War that followed‎ by Maurice Collis 1946. Archive.org mirror version from Digital Library of India. 1968 reprint editions: 1st file, 2nd file. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
Volume I (probably 2nd edition), Vol. I, 2nd file, but missing title page (appears to have been author/publishing decision); (Volume II; Volume III) All Archive.org.

Fiction

All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

References

  1. “Narcotics and empire” from Frontline-The Hindu Volume 23 - Issue 10: 20 May - 2 June 2006, now archived; Article by Dipesh Karmarkar academia.edu. Discussions of the book Opium City, The Making of Early Victorian Bombay by Amar Farooqui 2006, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01013423658 .