Kawal Deep Kour

Opium Consumption and Experience in India (eBook, ePUB)

From the Earliest to Contemporary Times

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 India's 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academica Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781680536171
• Artikelnr.: 68158444

Autorenporträt

Kawal Deep Kour holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. She is a drug abuse prevention specialist and currently Director of the South Asian Drugs and Addictions Research Council. Dr. Kour is a former board member of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) and author of History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959 and many other publications.