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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]from Digital Library of India.
*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://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. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://abuse-drug.com/lib/Table/The-Opium-Department-Report-India/index.html ''Report of the Opium Department India 1881''] abuse-drug.com
*[httphttps://ebooksarchive.org/details/in.ernet.adelaidedli.edu2015.au3058/kpage/kiplingn323/rudyardmode/opium/complete.html 2up ''In an Opium Factory''] by Rudyard Kipling , page 311 ''From Sea To Sea and Other Sketches Volume II'' 1938, originally published 1888 (eBooks, University of Adelaide). Archive.org. [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]].
