This article examines the market for cocaine in India during the early twentieth century and
the efforts of the colonial state to control it. The British authorities issued regulations to …

This article examines a drugs trade in Asia that has been largely forgotten by historians and
policy-makers, that in cocaine. It will briefly trace some of the contours of this commerce and …

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, British and Egyptian officials, medical doctors, and the
Egyptian press reiterated that country was plagued by “white drugs”: cocaine and heroin …

It is generally recognized that opium was vital for sustaining the British Empire throughout
the nineteenth century. During the latter half of the eighteenth century, and most of the …

Jordan Goodman has underlined that next to nothing is known concerning how and why
Europeans consumed coffee, chocolate and tea and how and why that consumption was …

Beginning in the early nineteenth century, the British Empire began extracting regular
revenues from the production and trade of cannabis goods in its South Asian territories. The …

The article examines the role of the Parsis of India in the opium trade between China and
India during the 18th and 19th centuries. It examines the significant role of a non-European …

In 1893 the Secretary of State for India revealed in the House of Commons that he had
ordered the Government of India to conduct a wide-ranging inquiry into the issue of …

At the beginning of the 21st century, alcoholism, transnational drug trafficking and drug
addiction constitute major problems in various South Asian countries. The production …

What makes the event in West Bengal so intriguing is, then, not only the scale of the tragedy
but also that it reminded a world-wide audience of a fact that is hardly part of the public …