Q- how did the British establish their monopoly over opium trade
Answer:-
· On 1773 the British government in Bengal have establish their monopoly over the opium trade
· To do trade of opium traders have to take a legal permission of British government and the permission was given to only some selected peoples and other were not legally permitted to trade in opium
· By the 1820s the British opium production in their territories was declining by the farmers and in other territories opium production was rapidly increasing
· Opium was produced in the princely states where traders of opium offers good amount of money in the exchange of opium and exporting it to china
· According to the British the trade of opium is illegal it should be stop it is nearly to smuggling
· It therefore asked some peoples to move in the princely state to confiscate all the opium and destroy the crops.