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Since 2023 Kawal Deep Kour is a Contributing Editor at Points. She is also a Prevention Specialist, currently heading the South Asian Drugs and Addictions Research Council, India. She completed her doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India and her thesis, History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959 was published by Routledge in 2019.
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May 22, 2023 ∙ 5 min
A Morphia Industry in India?
Entwined interests of colonial science, medicine and commerce. In 1829, at a meeting of the Westminster Medical Society, a group of...
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Apr 20, 2023 ∙ 5 min
An ‘Opium Zone’ From Assam to Yunnan
Opium Trade, Imperial Interests and Politics of Control in a Frontier Landscape A careful examination of the epigraphic and literary...
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Mar 21, 2023 ∙ 5 min
Opium Connoisseurs: The Rajas and the Padshahs of India
By the sixteenth century, in India, opium was more than a mere herbal medicine or a valuable item of maritime trade. From its earliest...
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