Name any two Indian states which were producing opium for the East India Company name two other region which starts producing it after 1820
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Bihar and Benares are the two states.
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Two Indian states: Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal
The Malwa and Gangetic eastern region.
Explanation:
- Opium during the colonial period considered to be one of the profit commodity.
- Opium for the first time entered in India 18th century when Britishers decide to trade it with the Chinese market.
- Britain needed opium to trade with China because trading with them was considering to be expensive.
- Britain paid silver in return of tea, silk and porcelain. To get profit in trade Britishers smuggled opium from India to China.
- Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal became two of the states to produce opium.
- The region which started producing it after 1820 is the Malwa and Gangetic eastern region.
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