Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s4.75

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c7.s4.75

¹ Compare I.G.I., VIII, 308-9 for the use of opium. Compare Crooke’s, Herklot’s, etc., 325 for the consumption of opium among Indian Muslims in modern times. Compare numerous references to Rajput opium-eating in Tod (for instance, II, 749). According to Watt’s Dictionary, the Arabs were chiefly concerned in disseminating in the East the knowledge of the poppy plant.

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