Kawal Deep Kour is an independent researcher on narcotics and drug policy. She has presented her work at various national and international forums. Dr. Kour is currently Member of Board at the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, UK.

• List of illustrations 9 List of tables 9 Acknowledgements 11 Note on usage 13 Glossary 15 Abbreviations 171. Introduction 192. Tastes that Turned History: Tea, Sugar and Opium – Intersecting Stories and Intoxicating Connotations 443. Thinking Imperially: Intertwined Interests of Colonial Science, Medicine and Opium 594. On a Route Laced with Opium: Networks of Commerce and Consumption in a Colonial Hinterland 945. From Assam Kanee to Behar Abkaree 1326. Opium Reduction Campaign: 1921-1938 1637. Towards Total Prohibition: Opium EradicationCampaign in Assam, 1935-1959 1998. Kaniai Khale Asam Desh: A Reconsiderationof the Nationalist critique of the ‘Imperialism of Opium’ 2329. Conclusion 260appendicesI. Consumption of Opium in Assam by Persons of Different Tribes Castes and Tribes 271II. Statement Showing the Number of Shops for the Vend of Opium and the Consumption in Assam, Since the Formation of the Province 272III. Increasing Revenue and Diminishing Consumption. Statistics for the Period 1873-4 to 1894-5 273IV. Population, Consumption and Revenue at Each Census 274V. Table Showing the ‘Black Spots’ of Assam-consumption in the Four Upper Assam Districts (League of Nations Standard)6 Seers Per Ten Thousand of Population) 275VI. Consumption of Opium in British India, 1924-5 275VII. Selected Year Wise Statistics of the Jailed Inmates Who Confessed Habitual Use of Opium 276VIII. ‘Assamese in the Clutches of Opium.’‘What a Ruin has Befallen! Opium has Destroyed Axom’ 277IX. ‘Opium has Brought the Society on the Brink of Degradation’ 278X. Newspaper Article on the Announcement of Opium Eradication Campaign by Congress Coalition Ministry in 1939 279XI. ‘The Vision of Opium Eradication Campaign in Assam’ 280XII. ‘Medicine for Giving up Opium Use’ 281Bibliography 283 Index 307

Select Guide Rating