Drugs in South Asia
Subtitle: From the Opium Trade to the Present Day
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780312223793
Subjects: Offenses And Offenders; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Asia - General; General; History / Asia; History : Asia - General; Political Science : General; Social Science / General; Criminology; 20th century; Drug traffic; History; South Asia
First sentence: Through the dealings of the British East India Company, opium, traditionally used medicinally, became a non-medical business commodity during the late eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries.