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Plassey: Opium Trade & Colonial Power by shifat is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses the history of the opium trade in India under British colonial rule from 1773 to 1856. It notes that the British East India Company established a monopoly on the opium trade in Bengal in 1763 and organized local farmers to grow poppies through agents. The area under poppy cultivation rapidly increased, contributing to a famine in 1770 that killed 10 million people in Bengal. The colonial authorities also passed laws that allowed the state to profit from the opium trade while pushing p
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- shifat
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