Poverty in India Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, were dedicated to producing poppy and opium, which were then exported to southeast and east Asia particularly China, with the trade an exclusive monopoly first of East India Company, and later the colonial British institutions. The economic importance of this shift from industry to agriculture in India was large; by 1850, it created nearly 1,000 square kilometres of poppy farms in India in its fertile Ganges plains, led to two opium wars in Asia, with the second opium war fought between 1856 and 1860. After China accepted opium trade, the colonial government dedicated more land
From China to Canada the growing literature on the Chinese in North America." Chan's criticisms were that it included more information than necessary and also was redundant in places. In a book review for the "China Quarterly", Lucie Cheng wrote that the book was both strengthened and weakened by its "comprehensiveness" since "By trying to give us too much, it ends up giving us too little." Kashima wrote "Historians will find this an interesting and sound account which helps to fill the information gap on the Chinese in Canada." Stanford M. Lyman of the New School for Social Research wrote that this book and