Mizo Hills
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| Mizo Hills | |
|---|---|
| Lushai Hills | |
| HistoricalGrown here in the past; no recent record either way | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Gene Pool | South Asian Gene Pool |
| Growing Region | Indo-Burman Range |
| Geography | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Mizoram |
| Coordinates | 23.30, 92.85 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 21,100 km² |
| Terrain | Approximately the state of Mizoram: parallel north–south ridges and narrow river valleys |
| Growing history | |
| Earlier names | Lushai Hills; the Lushai country |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 0 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Mizo Hills is a historical cannabis growing area in the Mizo Hills of Mizoram, in north-east India, on the borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh. In 1893 the Commissioner of Excise for Assam named the Lushai country, the hills' name at the time, among the hill tracts round the province that he called "ganja-producing tracts".[1] It is one of the growing areas of the Indo-Burman Range growing region.
Geography
The Mizo Hills form part of the Rakhine (Arakan) Mountains: compact parallel ridges of Cenozoic sandstone, limestone and shale running north and south, separated by narrow river valleys and rising to about 2,100 m. The Kaladan and its tributaries drain the south into Myanmar, and the Tlawng and the Tuirail flow north into Assam. The territory was the Lushai Hills District of Assam until it was renamed the Mizo Hills District in 1954; it became the union territory of Mizoram in 1972 and a state in 1987.[2] The area is drawn on the whole state, about 21,100 km².
History
The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission of 1893–94 found the wild hemp plant spreading along the mountain ranges on the frontiers of East Bengal, Assam and Upper Burma, from Independent Tippera "through Lushailand, Manipur, and the country of the Kachins, to the frontiers of China".[3]
J. J. S. Driberg, Assam's Commissioner of Excise, surveyed for the Commission the hills that surrounded the districts of the Brahmaputra and Surma valleys. South of Cachar, he said, lay the Lushai country, taken over in 1891, where a Political Officer was supported by a strong force and where it was "inexpedient to interfere in excise matters". He went on: "All these hill tracts are ganja-producing tracts, and the drug is brought down to the plains and secretly sold or bartered for other commodities."[1]
R. B. McCabe, the deputy commissioner of Kamrup, told the Commission that the excise law was not in force in the Lushai Hills.[4] Having lived for years among the hill peoples, he said he had never seen the people of the higher Naga Hills or of the Lushai Hills smoke ganja.[5]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Mr. J. J. S. Driberg, Commissioner of Excise and Inspector General of Police and Jails". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. IV: Evidence of Witnesses from Bengal and Assam. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. Assam witness no. 2, answer 70, pp. 532–533 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "Mizoram". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 19 October 2026.
- ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. I: Report. Simla: Government Central Printing Office. ch. III, "The existence, prevalence, and character of the spontaneous growth", paras. 84–85, pp. 33–34 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Mr. McCabe". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. IV: Evidence of Witnesses from Bengal and Assam. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. Assam witness no. 5, p. 538 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Mr. McCabe". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. IV: Evidence of Witnesses from Bengal and Assam. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. Assam witness no. 5, p. 539 – via Internet Archive.