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== Recommended Reading ==
''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
[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 Digital Library of India website, as a [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/209009 pdf download].
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*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
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209009 ''Foreign Mud: being an account of the opium imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s & the Anglo-Chinese War that followed''] by Maurice Collis 1946. Pdf download Digital Library of India.
*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://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
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