Date: August 26th, 2016 2:01 PM
Author: Racy mauve really tough guy church
yep.
india as an intact market was clutch because the british could trade cheap manufactured goods for indian opium. then take that opium and dump it on chinese addicts in exchange for chinese wealth.
the british would've otherwise had a negative balance of trade with china because they were spending lots of silver to buy chinese tea.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3333204&forum_id=2!#31272974)