Opium Book

I recently published my first book: The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India with Brill. The Front and Back Matter, as well as the Introduction of the book are freely accessible via Brill’s  website.

 

The book was recently awarded with the Michael Mitterauer–Prize for best monograph:

 

An article on science.orf.at:

 

A short feature / interview on radio Ö1:

 

My favourite novelist Amitav Ghosh tweeted about my book:

 

A BBC news article by Soutik Biswas:

 

…retweeted by William Dalrymple:

 

A few tweets by pseudoersamus:

+Bauer reconstructs total costs of opium production (in terms of labour effort, capital inputs, rents paid) & compares them with incomes received by cultivators from the Opium Department (sole legal buyer of the output). His calcs convincingly demonstrate the pauperisation thesis

— Pseudoerasmus (@pseudoerasmus) September 5, 2019