IOR/L/E/8/488

File includes:

• Replies of Provincial Governments in India to a question raised by the Government of India on the subject of opium smoking and enforcing its prohibition
• Report by the Representative of India, Mr W Nind, CIE., on the 24^th Session of the Opium Advisory Committee, 15^th May to 12^th June, 1939
• League of Nations Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium and other Dangerous Drugs – Reports to the Council concerning the Preparatory Work for a Conference to consider the Possibility of limiting and controlling the Cultivation of the Opium Poppy and the Production of Raw Opium and controlling other Raw Materials for the Manufacture of Opium Alkaloids (League of Nations Publications XI.1 and XI.3, (Geneva: May-June 1938 and May-June 1939)
• Report (English translation) on scientific research undertaken in the USSR on the alkaloid content of the dried opium poppy plant (Geneva, 17^th April, 1937) Official ref: O.C.1546 (1) (e).
• League of Nations Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium and other Dangerous Drugs – tables showing raw opium statistics, for the period 1926-1935, concerning world production, use, stocks, exports of producing countries, and seizures (Geneva, 3^rd November, 1937) O.C./Confidential/18.(1).
• Government of India reply, in respect of both British Indian and the Indian States, to the League of Nations Questionnaire, circulated to governments in 1933, on the limitation and the control of the opium poppy and production of raw opium (New Delhi: Government of India Press, 1936)