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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

A “Surreptitious Introduction”: Opium Smuggling and Colonial State Formation in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal and Burma

Author : Diana Kim

Published in: New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter examines an 1870 dispute about opium smuggling that unfolded in the British Indian colony of Burma. It traces how a small intra-bureaucratic disagreement escalated into a large and enduring controversy over how to observe an invisible activity, the political economic and moral significance of that activity in a non-European setting, as well as a colonial state’s proper regulatory role.

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Title
A “Surreptitious Introduction”: Opium Smuggling and Colonial State Formation in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal and Burma
Author
Diana Kim
Copyright Year
2018
Book
New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-58246-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-58247-4

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58247-4_8