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File:Bhang-wild-growth-amritsar-1894.jpg

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"Group of plants in the spontaneous growth of bhang at Amritsar. 23rd April 1894." Plate in the Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94, vol. I (Simla: Government Central Printing Office, 1894), with the imprint "Survey of India Offices, Calcutta, August 1894".

A stand of tall, loosely branched cannabis plants with narrow, divided leaves, photographed among trees. The date is the one printed in the plate's caption.

Source: Wellcome Library scan of the facsimile reprint (Kilkerran: Hardinge Simpole, 2010, in association with the National Library of Scotland), https://archive.org/details/b32222920_0001, PDF page 45. Rotated upright, cropped to the photograph, excluding the printed caption, and downscaled to 1,600 pixels wide; tones not adjusted.

Used on Bhang.

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current03:03, 16 October 2026Thumbnail for version as of 03:03, 16 October 20261,600 × 1,170 (375 KB)Eloise Zomia (talk | contribs)Plate from the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission report (1894): wild bhang at Amritsar

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