Gaden Tangkas and Sichuan Rupees
WHAT WAS IT like in the 1830s?
From a planetary perspective there had been constant war since ancient times.
There is a Wikipedia article “List of Wars.” The 1830s and 1840s list has more than 50 wars for each decade. Quite a few conflicts took place in and around India.
There was a war between the Gurkhas and the Sikhs in 1809, and an Anglo-Nepalese war in 1816. There was a Sino-Sikh war in 1842, the same year as the First Opium War. Three wars between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company: 1820, 1846 and 1849. The Sikhs also fought the Afghans in 1837. All the fighting ruined the Sikhs, but that’s another story.
The 1840s were bigger wars. The British East India Company launched the First Opium War against China. The opium wars were basically this: the East India Company discovered that they could make opium in India and
