
EP 48: Opium and Colonialism
Brown History Podcast
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Is China Really That Strong or Is It Just Insecure and Defensive?
The opium trade is something that the British are profiting from. The Mughal Empire was a strong empire at one point and then somehow like for really complicated reasons they lost their political strength. Once that happens once the state becomes ineffective, people find ways to survive outside of it because who cares about the state? That's the feeling I get in India right now.
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