File:Prain-1893-p4-poddars-passage.jpg
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Summary
David Prain's paragraph on the poddars, the men who removed male plants from the ganja fields, Report on the Cultivation and Use of Gánjá (Calcutta, 1893), p. 4.
Used in Poddar.
Source
- Original: D. Prain, Report on the Cultivation and Use of Gánjá (Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1893), printed page 4 (page 12 of the PDF scan), https://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/archive/74913508.
- Changes: cropped to Prain's paragraph 3 on the poddars who go round a field three or four times a season, rendered at 300 dpi, downscaled to 1280 × 342 pixels; tones not adjusted.
- Identification: Scan, printed p. 4 (PDF p. 12): "Special men—poddars—who profess ability to recognise the sexes long before the plants are mature, go round a field three or perhaps four times during a season, selecting what they say are male plants".
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| current | 02:53, 31 October 2026 | | 1,280 × 342 (125 KB) | Eloise Zomia (talk | contribs) | Image for Poddar: crop of D. Prain, Report on the Cultivation and Use of Gánjá (Calcutta: Bengal Secretari, p. 4 (public domain) |
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