Indian Farmers and Opium Production Video Lecture - Class 9

let us now move to India and see what
was happening in the Indian country in
the late 18th and early 19th centuries
as we know India is a country in South
Asia it is the seventh largest country
by area and the second most populous
country in the world around 1.2 billion
people are living in India and it is
bounded by in the notion on the south
and Arab NZ on the southwest and Bay of
Bengal on the southeast
it sure is landowners of Pakistan to the
West China Airport and Bhutan to the
north east and murmur that is Burma and
Bangladesh to the east
in addition India's Andaman and Nicobar
Island share a maritime border with
Thailand and Indonesia in this capital
peace New Delhi other metro police
include Mumbai Bangalore Chennai
Hyderabad Ahmedabad and cricket these
are the general things regarding India
when we come to our chapter as you know
British government rule was gradually
established in India after the Battle of
Plassey Battle of Plassey was two plays
in vanguard in 1757 it was a 10-point
over the period of colonial rule the
rural landscape was radically
transformed the British saw land revenue
as a major source of government income
in the 18th century the British
developed taste for tea
the imported both silk and tea from
China and paid in silver and gold coins
to the China this began to affect the
profits of English East India Company
when tea became a popular drink in
England because they're all silver and
gold coins the spin or China
the British discovered that they can
trade opium with China in exchange for
tea
the British discovered that there can
trade opium with China in exchange for
tea
opium however was being used in China
only for medicinal purpose and it is
trade had been banned by Confucius
rulers of China it is considering as a
drug
the conversion rule is of China that was
Manchus rulers it is a name of dynasty
were suspicious of all foreign merchants
they fear that the merchants would
interfere in local politics and disrupt
their authority
so the Manchus dynasty were unwilling to
allow the entry of foreign goods in
China
the British then started an illegal
trade of opium into China this mangled
opium into China through their zero and
God sold through some local agency
secretly opium was not grown in England
but in India by the poor persons of
Bengal the poor peasants of Bengal were
far from happy to go opium for the
British the British appointed agents who
had danced money to the rich landlords
who gave the money to the peasants as
blonds the peasants were now forced to
grow only opium on the land and hand
over the produce to the landlord this
landlord handover OPM to the British the
Chinese started paying lower rates to
the peasants swing the British started
paying lower rates to the peasants and
selling the opium to the Chinese at
higher rate thus increasing their profit
margins persons tried to visit this
exploitation in many ways they refused
to take advances and demand at high
rates some refused to grow opium and
started cultivating potatoes and suger
Kindle there were others who sold off
the opium produced by them at higher
rates to travelling trade known as
Pickers a monopoly of the British over
growing opium was broken when states not
under British rule like register started
growing opium and exporting to China
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