Opium Inc.: How a Global Drug Trade Funded the British Empire - Thomas Manuel Audiobook
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This is the story of the world’s biggest drug deal.
In the 19th century, the British East India Company operated a triangle of trade that straddled the globe, running from India to China to Britain. From India to China, they took opium. From China to Britain, they took tea. From Britain to India, they brought empire. It was a machine that consumed cheap Indian land and labor and spat out money.
The British had two problems, though. They were importing enormous amounts of tea from China, but the Celestial Empire looked down on British goods and only wanted silver in return. Simultaneously, the expanding colony in India was proving far too expensive to maintain. The British solved both problems with opium, which became the source of income on which they built their empire.
For more than a century, the British knew that the drug was dangerous and continued to trade in it anyway. Its legacy in India, whether the poverty of Bihar or the wealth of Bombay, is still not acknowledged. Like many colonial institutions in India, the story of opium is one of immense pain for many and huge privileges for a few.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
November 8th, 2023
Ah, the ol’ Brutish empire, eh? There’ll always be an Ing-er-land. Where’s pryderi, to deny genocide again?
November 8th, 2023
When white people kill, conquer, enslave and addict others to drugs, it’s called building a civilization…
When the rest of us do it, it’s called terrorism…
November 8th, 2023
Careful, koloko, if you’re still at all that stuff, they’ll put you back on the register - that pesky emergency watchlist.
November 8th, 2023
Thank you very much.
It was not just the British by the way. The Dutch enforced their opium onto the various peoples of the Indonesian archipelago. On average 40% of colonial revenue from the Dutch East Indies came from opium. But the history books still call it the “spice trade”.
November 9th, 2023
Thanks for the upload
November 13th, 2023
Well, I didn’t know opium was spice Thamus.
November 13th, 2023
The spice must flow. The spice extends life; it expands consciousness. It’s also damn good eatin’!
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