This study investigates the connection between the regulation of
opium and the exercise of imperial power in colonial Burma. It
traces the opium industry from the British annexation of the
Burmese territories of Arakan and Tenasserim in 1826 to the end of
the colonial era, arguing that this connection was
multi-dimensional. The British regime regulated opium to facilitate
labour extraction, and the articulation of a rationale for opium
policy was inextricable from the articulation of a rationale for
colonial rule more generally. Evolving discourses about race
invoked opium consumption. Finally, Burma's position in multiple
transnational and imperial networks informed its colonial opium
policy.
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