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*[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
*[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===
* ''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.
**[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/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.
*[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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