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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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209009 Archive.org mirror version].
*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)
*[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)
*[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
*[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
*[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 is available to read . Archive.org, online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] websiteCollection.
*[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://archive.org/details/ashorthistoryofl00jeha ''A Short history of the lives of Bombay opium smokers''] by Rustom Pestanji Jehangir 1893 Archive.org
