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The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004385177)
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xWinner of the 2019 Michael Mitterauer-Prize for best monograph
The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer not only shows that the peasants cultivated poppy against a substantial loss but he also reveals how they were coerced into the production of this drug. By dissecting the economic and social power relations on a local level, this study explains how a triangle of debt, the colonial state's power and social dependencies in the village formed the coercive mechanisms that transformed the peasants into opium producers. The result is a book that adds to our understanding of peasant economies in a colonial context.
Author: Rolf Bauer
ISBN-10: 9004385177
ISBN-13: 9789004385177
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2019
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer not only shows that the peasants cultivated poppy against a substantial loss but he also reveals how they were coerced into the production of this drug. By dissecting the economic and social power relations on a local level, this study explains how a triangle of debt, the colonial state's power and social dependencies in the village formed the coercive mechanisms that transformed the peasants into opium producers. The result is a book that adds to our understanding of peasant economies in a colonial context.
Author: Rolf Bauer
ISBN-10: 9004385177
ISBN-13: 9789004385177
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2019
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
By Rolf Bauer
xRolf Bauer, PhD (2018), University of Vienna, is currently a lecturer in Economic and Social History, South Asian Studies and International Development at that university. He has previously published on the opium industry in nineteenth-century India.
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