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SUMMARY:Opium’s Empire in the Nineteenth Century - Dr Devyani Gupta (Jin
 dal Global University/ University of Leeds)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:A singularly exploitative regime of imperialist expansion unle
 ashed by the British on China and India\, the empire of opium would refash
 ion socio-economic and political relations across large parts of the colon
 ial world and its dependencies\, resulting in the creation of new geograph
 ies of imperialism focused on the Indian subcontinent in the long nineteen
 th century. By unearthing unexplored linkages between histories of transpo
 rt\, communication\, and commodity exchange\; by examining European commer
 cial shipping interests and indigenous mercantile networks of the Indian O
 cean region\; and in studying the exploitative labour regimes and extracti
 ve policies of that time\, this paper will provide a reflection on the ear
 ly stages of globalised capital rooted within the local networks of South 
 Asia. In doing so\, this paper will reconceptualise the meaning of space a
 nd frontiers through the journey of a commodity within an imperial\, but a
 lso a globalised context. This paper will establish the primacy of inter-A
 sian interaction\, through the connected histories of the colonial periphe
 ries found in the many Asias dotting the Indian Ocean littoral\, stretchin
 g from Mozambique and Zanzibar to Turkey\, Persia\, India\, Burma\, Yunnan
 \, and the Strait Settlements.\n\n"Register to receive zoom webinar access
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LOCATION:Wolfson College Zoom webinar
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