“.from now on there are no differences between us, we are jahaz-bhai and jahaz-bahen to each other all of us children of the ship.” The Opium Warsīritish traders wanted to trade with China and used the opium they got from the east India Company in exchange for tea. The journey across the ocean makes the people on board react and create a unique sense of community: The ship is Ibis,a black birder which means that it was a slavery ship but now carries something else rather more profitable than slaves – opium and other drugs. SEtting off from the Hoogly River in Calcutta the ship is bound for Mauritius in the 1830s The Indian Ocean From the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of China, the colonial history of China comes to life.Īn unusual bunch of characters who all find themselves aboard a ship, in the middle of the Indian Ocean is the setting for a a very interesting adventure.
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