Drugs in South Asia: From the Opium Trade to the Present Day
Author:   M. Haq
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9780333754658


Pages:   319
Publication Date:   12 July 2000
Format:   Hardback
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The drug problem in South Asia is mounting. This work provides an inside story of the pro-revenue drug policies pursued both by the British colonial authorities and post-independent governments in South Asia. It examines the resurgence of Indian traffickers in international drug trafficking in recent years, and presents an extensive overview of the Afghan crisis that endorsed money from heroin trafficking to support the war in Afghanistan. The dangers of the drug trade in South Asia have now become global the author assesses international efforts against drug trafficking and the factors constraining this.

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Author:   M. Haq
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9780333754658


ISBN 10:   0333754654
Pages:   319
Publication Date:   12 July 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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List of Tables, Figures and Maps Preface Glossary Abbreviations Prelude Colonial Drug Trade Anti-Opium Pressures British Narco-Diplomacy 1909-46 Indian Resurgence 1947-97 Pakistani Dilemmas 1947-97 Bangladeshi Panorama 1972-97 Epilogue Notes Select Bibliography Index

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M. EMDAD UL HAQ is a political scientist with research interests in the politics of narcotics in South Asia and the Asia-Pacific region, and comparative politics. He is Associate Professor at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh and is the author of Drug Addiction: National and World Perspective and Comparative Political Analysis.

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