Opium Consumption and Experience in India (eBook)

From the Earliest to Contemporary Times

Kawal Deep Kour (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
317 Seiten
Academica Press (Verlag)
978-1-68053-617-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Opium Consumption and Experience in India offers a cultural biography of opium on the subcontinent. It spans the Raj and India after independence.The book examines the social lives of opium in India, beginning as a commodity in the sixteenth century, exploring its social transformation and singularization in the eighteenth century, and chronicling its decline from the mid-nineteenth century to obsolescence and the new paths and diversions of our own times. The book attempts to illuminate how opium came to occupy a central place in Indias cultures of consumption and also in the socio-economic and political life of a people. How did opium become embedded in a social ethos where it not only served as a social lubricant but soon morphed into a narco-identity for the people of India? The identification of India as a land of great opium eaters spawned the propaganda of a civilizing mission that ushered in a new era of material exploitation and political domination. As Dr. Kour demonstrates, this had a significant impact on the development and regulation of opium and its use.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: History, Social Science, Political Science, India, Public Health, Capitalism, Narcotics, Drug Abuse, South Asia, South Asian Studies, Business
• ISBN-10: 1-68053-617-6 / 1680536176
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68053-617-1 / 9781680536171