Made in India : Opium exports during the British Raj

Tintin, the indestructible Belgian explorer, also made a trip to the Orient in the comic book "The Blue Lotus". I don't recollect the entire story from that episode but I do remember reading about Opium addiction in China in that book and many others. It is common knowledge that the British brought Opium to China. If you were wondering where all that Opium was produced, Amitav Ghosh has an answer for you.

In this book entitled Sea of Poppies, he writes about this and other stories from colonial India. The BBC interviewed Amitav Ghosh about his book here.