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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===
*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=fiYUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 “Report no.1: On the Poppy Cultivation, and the Benares Opium Agency”] by WCB Eatwell MD ‘First Asst. and Opium Examiner. Board of Customs, Salt and Opium’ from ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal'' (1851) Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=fbZGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The rise and progress of British opium smuggling: the illegality of the East India Company's monopoly of the drug, and its injurious effects upon India, China, and the commerce of Great Britain. Five letters addressed to the Earl of Shaftesbury''] by Major-General R Alexander, Madras Army 3rd edition revised and enlarged 1856 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)
*[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
*''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.
*[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.
*''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
