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Review essay; Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine, Kaushik Sunder Rajan.Duke University Press, Durham (2017). 344pp,price $104.95 cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8223-6313-2 Jeremy Greene, Flurin Condrau, Elizabeth SiegelWatkins. (Eds.), Pharmaceutical Revolutions:Pharmaceuticals and social change in thetwentieth-century, University of Chicago Press,Chicago (2016).

This article looks at women's football in India and in particular at the dominance of the Manipuri women's team. It argues that its success has origins in both the region's history and its recent politics. Manipur, a troubled buffer zone between Indian and Burma, has a gender politics rare for south Asia. Women have traditionally held important positions in the religious rituals of the region, among which are dance and sporting practices in which women engage actively. Alongside the resulting physical culture, women have exercised considerable economic and political clout, most famously in their organization of resistance to British colonialism and to the Indian state throughout the 20th century. The article concludes by examining the implications of the story of Manipuri women's football for debates in academic fields as diverse as gender studies, the history of colonialism and sport, and the analysis of subalternity and the dynamics of resistance.

Introduction. Breaking News: "Weed Kills Coronavirus" / James H. Mills and Lucas Richert -- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century. Taming the Orient: France and the first global movement to medicalize cannabis -- Ganja and the government of India: Cannabis, excise, and colonial administration in the late nineteenth century -- Ganja madness: Cannabis, insanity, and indentured labor in British Guiana and Trinidad, 1881-1912 -- 1900s-1940s. Dagga: How South Africa made a dangerous drug, 1902-1928 -- Squaring a circle: Cannabis and the dubious legacy of the League of Nations -- A historical approach to the criminalization of marijuana use in Mexico -- Reefer madness past and present: Dr. Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, Mexico, and the United States -- 1950s-1960s. Smugglers from the East and travelers from the West: The hash trade and drug control in the building of the Afghan State -- Hashers don't read Das Kapital: East Germany, Socialist prohibition, and global cannabis -- Origins of cannabis prohibition in Nigeria and the Sixties -- Cannabis, counterculture, and criminals: The rise of cannabis smuggling in the Netherlands -- 1970s-Present. "We Smoke Flowers": On "Being High" in postrevolutionary Iran -- PRIDE International and drug war diplomacy: The parent movement's global battle against marijuana -- Sub Saharan Africa, cannabis, and contemporary drug policy -- Forces of necessity: The role of lay knowledge and advocacy in the remedicalization of British Cannabis, 1973-2004.

China, British imperialism and the myth of the 'opium plague' / Frank Dik'tter, Lars Laamann, and Xun Zhou -- Developing habits : opium and tobacco in the Indonesian archipelago, c. 1619-c. 1794 / George Bryan Souza -- Early British encounters with the Indian opium eater / Richard Newman -- "Cannot we induce the people of England to eat opium?" The moral economy of opium in colonial India / John F. Richards -- Opium and the trading world of western India in the early nineteenth century / Amar Farooqui -- Dangerous drinks and the colonial state : "illicit" gin prohibition and control in colonial Nigeria / Chima J. Korieh -- Empire and excise : drugs and drink revenue and the fate of states in South Asia / Marc Jason Gilbert -- Powders, potions and tablets : politics, science and the purity of drugs in British India, 1890 to 1939 / Patricia Barton -- Colonial Africa and the international politics of cannabis : Egypt, South Africa, and the origins of global control / James H. Mills -- "A grave danger to the peace of the East" : opium and imperial rivalry in China, 1895-1920 / William O. Walker III -- 'Wolf by the ears' : the dilemmas of imperial opium policymaking in the 20th century / William B. McAllister -- The trade-off : Chinese opium and American philanthropy, 1815-1860 / Kelly Gray