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*[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
*[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. A review Discussions of the book ''Opium City, The Making of Early Victorian Bombay'' by Amar Farooqui2006, 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
*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://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.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
*[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://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
*[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. *[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.
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