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*''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.
*[https://archive.org/details/ashorthistoryofl00jeha ''A Short history of the lives of Bombay opium smokers''] by Rustom Pestanji Jehangir 1893 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/ashorthistoryofl00jeha#page/n15/mode/2up/search/Sikh Page viii] and [https://archive.org/stream/ashorthistoryofl00jeha#page/44/mode/2up/search/Sikh page 44-45]. Details and a comment about the use of opium by Sikh soldiers in the [[Indian Army]].
*''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
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073053872#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 6 Final Report] 1895.
