Remember The Name, Renminbi – The People's Currency
Following the Battle of Plassey in 1757, in which Britain annexed Bengal to its empire, the British East India Company pursued a monopoly on production and export of Indian opium. The monopoly began in earnest in 1773, the British Governor-General of Bengal abolished the opium syndicate at Patna. For the next fifty years opium trade […]
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