Empire on the cheap: The control of opium smoking in the Straits settlements, 1925-1939
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The strategic importance of opium, the need of controlling opium smoking, growing dissatisfaction among the local people and the changes in the local lifestyle in the period of 1925 to 1939 is analyzed in the Straits Settlements. Opium brought in lucrative cash flow to the government as they charged no custom duties but as it was considered harmful to the health and with increased international criticism, the colonial government adopted the policy of controlling opium smoking that led to a fall in their revenue and dissatisfaction among the people.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2006
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Contesting state and civil society: Southeast Asian trajectories
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This article examines civil society mobilization in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The author discusses the differences between the four countries, maintaining each civil society mobilization process has its own nature, direction, and outcome, as well as a difference in the regimes, formation of social classes, relations with left-winged movements, and religious institutions.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2001
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Cosmologies, truth regimes, and the state in Southeast Asia
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The authors discuss questions about the relationship between knowledge and power in early and modern states in Southeast Asia. Topics include the clash of competing cosmologies in the region and the confrontation of shastric manual knowledge with Western knowledge in colonial Java.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2000
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