Opium example sentences

How did Indian cultivators respond to their entry into the modern world of international commerce and trade? Let us look at the history of one crop – opium – to get an idea of what colonial rule meant to peasants, and how the market operated in the colonies.When the British conquered Bengal, they made a determined effort to produce opium in the lands under their control.Let us ask, where is your conscience? I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by your country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood.As the market for opium expanded in China, larger volumes of opium flowed out of Bengal ports.You will find out about the small cottagers in England, the wheat farmers of the USA, and the opium producers of Bengal.By taking the loan, the cultivator was forced to grow opium on a specified area of land and hand over the produce to the agents once the crop had been harvested.This difference between the buying and selling price was the government's opium revenue.How could the cultivators be persuaded to grow opium? For a variety of reasons, they were unwilling to turn their fields over to poppy.From the late eighteenth century, as you have read in your book last year, the British in India began exporting opium to China and took tea from China to England.Third, the cultivation of opium was a difficult process.Find out about the effect of opium on the human body.But Western merchants in the mid-eighteenth century began an illegal trade in opium.This conflict between the British government, peasants and local traders continued as long as opium production lasted.Imagine that you were asked by the Emperor of China to prepare a leaflet for young people about the harmful effects of opium.Here is an extract from Lin's “Letter of Advice to Queen ictoria” 'All those people in China who sell opium or smoke opium should receive the death penalty.