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Narratives about the resurgence of India as a major consumer and supplier of contraband drugs in the world during the early 1980s are complex and numerous. India’s re-entry in international drug trafficking came about as a result of a number of factors associated with domestic, cross-border and cross-regional issues. The Indian authorities claim that as it is geographically located at the heart of three opium regions, it is used by traffickers from Pakistan in the west, Burma (Myanmar) in the northeast and Nepal in the north. I argue that, in regard to its drug policies, India is in the grip of a colonial mode of thought that goes back to the British opium trade in South Asia during the nineteenth century.
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Haq, M.Eu. (2000). Indian Resurgence, 1947–97. In: Drugs in South Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333981436_5
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