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The page treats boja, the fermented jowari drink with bhang of the Sholapur district. It does not cover boza, the fermented grain drink of Turkey and the Balkans, nor the different preparation called boja in the Madras evidence (see below).
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Sources
- Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, vol. I, ch. VIII, para. 426, p. 157, is cited from the page image. The OCR text of this page reads the name as doa; the printed word, and the side-heading, is boja. The paragraph names Bombay witnesses 25 and 47 as its sources.
- Heblikar (vol. VII, Bombay witness no. 27, p. 49) and Guzder (Bombay witness no. 47, p. 102) are cited from their page images. In Guzder's recipe the OCR text gives "22 tolas of bhang"; the page image reads "22 tolas kosht-kolanjan, 2 lb. of bhang".
- The Bijapur account is printed in the Bombay memorandum (vol. III, p. 94) and is cited from the page image.
- Chopra and Chopra (1957) is cited from the UNODC web edition, which carries no page numbers.
- Bombay witness no. 25 (deputy collector, Ahmednagar, pp. 42–43) gives a recipe close to Guzder's and says boja "is used in the Sholapur district". It is not cited separately.
Is it cannabis?
- Every recipe names bhang among the ingredients, and the commission calls boja "a liquid preparation of ganja". The page records the plant part as leaf because all the recipes use bhang.
- Boza is not this drink. The name of the Turkish and Balkan grain drink is close, and the 1856 German study on this wiki lists a Bosa drink, but no source cited here connects either to the Sholapur boja.
- Madras witness no. 122 (Cuddapah, vol. VI, p. 335) calls a third preparation boja: ganja with the roots of paddy, maize and other plants. It is a different preparation of the same name and is not on this page.
Kind and plant part
- Drink: every source describes a liquid drunk after straining or filtering.
- Leaf: bhang.
- Still made: "No longer made" rests on the Chopras' "used to be prepared" (1957).
Not used
- Recipe quantities and terms that no source glosses (koshta, kolinjana, dawna, marwa) are given as printed and not translated.
- The Bijapur report's remark that the contractors bought rotten jowari is left out.
- A Dharwar witness (vol. VII, Bombay witness no. 31, p. 61) says boja had been sold under licence in Dharwar some years before. It is not on the page because the account gives no date.