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Bhimbar treats the wild hemp of Bhimbar and its bhang as the Hemp Drugs Commission recorded them in 1893–94. The present district is Bhimber District, in Azad Kashmir.
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Why the area is mapped
- The commission's report (Vol. I, ch. III, para. 82) places wild growth in the Bhimbar district of the Jammu province and calls its bhang "highly esteemed" by Punjab witnesses; ch. VI, para. 242 lists it among the bhang regarded as superior.
- Mathra Das (Vol. V, p. 458, read on the page image) says bhang "is generally exported for sale into other districts from Bhimbhar". Stands that are named and harvested for sale count as a growing area here, although the commission found no cultivation.
Growing status
- The status is Historical: the evidence is from 1893–94, and no source read says anything of the tract since, either way.
- No first or last year is entered. The sources describe the tract at one moment and give no year for when its bhang began or ceased to be gathered.
Title
- The title is the name the sources use, Bhimbar (Mathra Das writes Bhimbhar); the present district is spelled Bhimber, which redirects here.
How the border is drawn
- The border is Bhimber District in OpenStreetMap (relation 8183916), simplified, about 1,250 km². No source read maps the Bhimbar district of the 1890s, which may have been larger; the present district is the proxy.
- The area has no growing region: the Western Himalayas region stops at the Line of Control, and no region is drawn on this side of it.
- The map point (32.97, 74.08) is Bhimber town.
Sources
- Maconachie (Punjab witness 8, p. 371) and Bhagwan Das (Punjab witness 36, pp. 430 and 433) were read on the page images; the commission's paras. 82 and 242 in the OCR text.
- Maconachie places Bhimbar "on the Jamu border of Gujrat", the neighbouring Punjab district.