Research:1953-01-01/Journal article/the-surprising-extinction-of-the-charas-traffic
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The surprising extinction of the charas traffic
Bulletin on Narcotics
An unsigned article in the first issue of the Bulletin on Narcotics for 1953, attributed to the United Nations Secretariat, which traces the end of the trade in charas from Chinese Turkistan into India, mainly through the annual reports of India and China. It sets out the licensed import of charas from Yarkand through the warehouse at Leh, India's consumption figures from 1923, the smuggling through Chitral, the Kohat Pass and the tribal territory, and the prohibition of export carried out in Sinkiang from 1934, which the article attributes to instructions of the Chinese government that, so far as the record showed, India had not requested. Licit consumption in British India fell from 55,128 kg in 1934 to 49 kg in 1945 and nothing in 1946, while ganja and bhang consumption rose, and the article closes with the trade extinct after independence. The Indian reports it quotes for 1935 and the 1940s describe garda charas, an inferior charas smuggled into the North West Frontier Province from Gardez in Afghanistan and from the tribal territory.
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| Term | Meaning | Place | Year | Where in the article | Recorded on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| garda charas | charas of inferior quality, smuggled from Gardez | Afghanistan | 1,935 | quoting the Government of India's annual report for 1935: "the garda charas, which was of inferior quality, was also smuggled from Gardez, in Afghanistan" | Afghan hashish trade |