Drugs in South Asia From the Opium Trade to the Present Day

The inside story of the pro-revenue drug policies pursued both by the British colonial authorities and post-independent governments in South Asia, where the drug problem is mounting, is told in this book. Explaining why the governments in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh barely changed the remains of the British drug laws until the mid-1980s, the author examines the resurgence of Indian traffickers in international drug trafficking in recent years. An extensive overview of how the US ignored the deflection of drug money to support the war in Afghanistan is provided.