Research-Opium Trade

 Opium. 

The history of its cultivation and use is long and complicated. What I focused on in Sins of a Rogue was the British East India Company's absolute control over it and the ills that came of it. OK, a very, very, very small part of what the EIC did in India and the wider implications of opium addiction. As I said, it's a long, complicated history. But it's always about the people involved.

This is from the BBC article

Here are a few resources I've used when researching opium, smuggling, and the EIC's role in it all.

 How Britain's opium trade impoverished Indians (BBC)

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple

The Opium Trade in the Dutch East Indies