Receipt of the crude opium, Patna, ca.1857.
By Shiva Lal
Painting; gouache on mica.
This Company Painting (a painting made by an Indian artist for the British in India) is done on mica (talc) and comes from a series of nineteen illustrating processes in the manufacture of opium at the opium fac...
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Weighing of the opium, Patna, ca.1857.
By Shiva Lal
Painting; gouache on mica.
This Company Painting (a painting made by an Indian artist for the British in India) is done on mica (talc) and comes from a series of nineteen illustrating processes in the manufacture of opium at the opium factory ...
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“Opium Fleet Descending the Ganges on the Way to Calcutta”
“An Opium Fleet of native boats, conveying the drug to Calcutta. The fleet is passing the Monghyr Hills, and is preceded by small canoes, the crews of which sound the depth of water, and warn all boats out of the Channel by beat of drum,...
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“In the Stacking Room the balls are stacked before being packed in boxes for Calcutta en route to China. A number of boys are constantly engaged in stacking, turning, airing, and examining the balls. To clear them of mildew, moths or insects, the...
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“In the Drying Room the balls are placed to dry before being stacked. Each ball is placed in a small earthenware cup. Men examine the balls, and puncture with a sharp style those in which gas, arising from fermentation, may be forming.”
“In the Mixing Room the contents of the earthen pans are thrown into vats and stirred with blind rakes until the whole mass becomes a homogeneous paste.”
- The Truth about Opium Smoking, 1882
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Illustrations of the mode of preparing the Indi...
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“The Examining Hall, Opium Factory at Patna India”
“In the Examining Hall the consistency of the crude opium as brought from the country in earthen pans is simply tested, either by the touch, or by thrusting a scoop into the mass. A sample from each pot (the pots being numbered and labelled) is ...
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The novel, Sea of Poppies, is first book of the trilogy Ibis and has been written by the Indian author, Amitav Ghosh. The novel deals with life in Calcutta and on the banks of river Ganga preceding the Opium Wars. This novel earned a Man Booker Prize nomi...
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Essay:
In an Opium Factory
By Rudyard Kipling
First Published: 16th April, 1888 in the Pioneer and 17th April, 1888 in the Pioneer Mail.
ON the banks of the Ganges, forty miles below Benares as the crow flies, stands the Ghazipur Factory, an opium mint as it were, whence issue the precious cake...
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Digital Rare Book:
British Opium Policy and its results to India and China
By F. S. Turner
Published by Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London - 1876
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Watercolour of a bird's eye view from an ...
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Digital Rare Book:
The rise and progress of British opium smuggling; the illegality of the East India Company's monopoly of the drug; and its injurious effects upon India, China, and the commerce of Great Britain.
By Major-General R. Alexander
Published by Judd and Glass, London - 1856
A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
"Each ball-maker is furnished with a small table, a stool, and a brass cup to shape the ball in a certain quantity of opium and water called ‘Lewa,’ and an allowance of poppy petals, in which the...
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Digital Rare Book:
Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition 1883: Razm Namah or History of War
By Thomas Holbein Hendley
Volume IV
Published by W.H.Griggs, London - 1883
The Jeypore Exhibition of 1883 was regarded as among the most important industrial exhibitions of 19th century, where specimen of t...
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Digital Rare Book:
The economic history of India under early British rule, from the rise of the British power in 1757 to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.
By Romesh Chunder Dutt
Published by Trubner & Co., Lonodon - 1920
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Oil painting, 'Queen Victoria in her Coronation Robes',...
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