Lakhi Duar (appellation)
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| Lakhi Duar | |
|---|---|
| Luckee Dooar, Lukhee Dooar, Lakhipur, Lakshmipur, Laxmi Duar | |
| ActiveRecorded as grown here since 2000 | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Gene Pool | South Asian Gene Pool |
| Regional Complex | Eastern Plains |
| Growing Region | The Dooars |
| Growing Area | Alipurduar |
| Geography | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | West Bengal |
| District | Alipurduar District |
| Coordinates | 26.76, 89.19 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 300 km² |
| Terrain | Approximately the Madarihat-Birpara block, less the Jaldapara and Khairbari-Deogaon forests: plain, tea estates and forest below the Bhutan hills |
| Climate | |
| Climate Type | Subtropical humid |
| Seasons | Monsoon (Jun–Sep), Winter (Nov–Feb) |
| Growing history | |
| Earlier names | Luckee Dooar (Eden 1865), Lakshmipur pargana (Hunter 1876) |
| Dated accessions | 2025 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Lakhi Duar is a landrace cannabis appellation in the Alipurduar growing area of The Dooars, in Alipurduar District, West Bengal, India. It is named after Luckee, the fourth of the duars through which Bhutan held the plains until the Duar War of 1864–65, and covers the Madarihat-Birpara community development block, less the Jaldapara and Khairbari-Deogaon forests. Two seed lots were collected there in June 2025, at Ballalguri and Makrapara.
History
Luckee is the fourth of the eleven Bengal duars in Ashley Eden's report of 1864, between Chamoorchee and Buxa.[1]: 8–9 (Eden's report) Captain R. B. Pemberton wrote that the Toorsha (the Torsa) entered the plains from it.[1]: 43 (Pemberton's report) Kishen Kant Bose, whose account was printed with Pemberton's, placed "the Soubah of Luckeepoor and Bala Dooar" under the Paro Pillo, the governor of Paro,[1]: 193 (Bose's account) and wrote that "the Toto tribe live in Luckeepoor".[1]: 199 (Bose's account)
After the annexation the tract became pargana Lakshmipur, one of the ten parganas of the Western Duars in 1870, with 105,353 acres.[2]: 275 Hunter's Statistical Account wrote that the Mujnai river "roughly marks the boundaries between parganas Lakshmipur and Madari",[2]: 233 and recorded government forests at Dumchi Chapaguri, Dalgaon Sarugaon and Nipania in the pargana.[2]: 240 The 1911 district gazetteer found the Totos at Totopara, a village built on a hill about five miles from the Hantapara tea garden, where they said they had lived for many generations.[3]: 40
No source read gives the limits of the duar or the pargana. The appellation is drawn on the modern block that holds Totopara, Dumchi and Dalgaon.
Accessions
| Accession ID | Name | Collected | Locality |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250045 | Titi Forest 'Ballalguri' Feral Selection 2025 | Ballalguri | |
| ZOM-IND-WEB-0620250068 | Makrapara General Population 2025 | Makrapara |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Political Missions to Bootan, Comprising the Reports of the Hon'ble Ashley Eden, 1864; Capt. R. B. Pemberton, 1837, 1838, with Dr. W. Griffiths's Journal; and the Account by Baboo Kishen Kant Bose (PDF). Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Office. 1865 – via Wikimedia Commons.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hunter, W.W. (1876). A Statistical Account of Bengal, Volume X: Districts of Darjiling and Jalpaiguri, State of Kuch Behar. London: Trübner & Co. – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Gruning, John F. (1911). Eastern Bengal and Assam District Gazetteers: Jalpaiguri. Allahabad: Pioneer Press – via Internet Archive.