Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay

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It was primarily opium that linked Bombay to the international capitalist economy and the western Indian hinterland in the nineteenth century. The essays in this book explore the linkages between the opium enterprise of western India and the creation of early Victorian Bombay. They dwell on some of the prominent features of urban development which reflect the relationship of collaboration and conflict between the capitalist class of the city and British colonial rule. They show opium as the crucial factor in the emergence of Bombay as a metropolic.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amar Farooqui

Amar Farooqui is Reader in History, University of Delhi. He is the author of Smuggling as Subversion: Colonialism, Indian Merchants and the Politics of Opium.

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Title
Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8188789321
Length
xiv+111p., Notes; Appendices; Bibliography; 23cm.
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