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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. :[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. A review discussion of the book ''Opium City, The Making of Early Victorian Bombay'' by Amar Farooqui. 2006, available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01013423658
*[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
*[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/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.
*[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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