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Growing places in historical sources lists places where a nineteenth-century source says cannabis was cultivated, with the year the source describes, the months and plant names it records, and where the place is today. Places where the sources record only wild or self-sown plants are not listed.
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Sources

  • Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, vol. I (Report): Boudh, Garhwal, Gaya, Kasauli, Kulu, Naogaon, Sonepur.
  • Vol. IV (evidence from Bengal and Assam): Adamdighi, Hill Tippera, Kotchandpur, Mahadebpur, Nawabganj. Page numbers are the printed pages.
  • Vol. V (evidence from the North-Western Provinces, Oudh and the Punjab): Bashahr and Simla (W. Coldstream, witness no. 5, who also gives the names used near Kasauli), Jaunsar-Bawar (Joytish Svarup, no. 237, who says he has little personal knowledge of what he states), Lahaul (the Rev. A. W. Heyde, no. 71).
  • Kerr (1877), read in the reprint in the House of Commons papers of 1893: Ganja Mahal, Keshabpur, Patnitala. Keshabpur comes from J. Westland's report on Jessore, which Kerr quotes.
  • Atkinson, The Himálayan Districts of the North-Western Provinces of India, vol. I (Allahabad, 1882), read in the Wellcome Collection's copy of its economic botany section (pp. 672–923): Kumaon.
  • East India (Consumption of Ganja), the House of Commons return of 1893, read in the Gokhale Institute's copy. Its own printed page numbers are used, for the Bengal papers of 1872 (Gurjat Mahals, Madras Presidency, Malabar, Orissa, Puri, Rajshahi Division, Tirupattur) and for the article from Watt's Dictionary of the Economic Products of India that the return reprints (Chittagong, Eastern Bengal, Garhwal, Kashmir, Kumaon, Ladakh, Malda); the page given for a Watt passage is the return's page, not the page of Watt's volume.
  • D. Prain, Report on the Cultivation and Use of Gánjá (1893): Central India, Chota Nagpur, Gwalior, Malabar, North Bengal, Western Himalaya.
  • L. S. S. O'Malley, Bengal District Gazetteers: Rajshahi (1916): Ganja Mahal, Naogaon.
  • A. Christison, On the natural history, action, and uses of Indian hemp, Monthly Journal of Medical Science (1851): Garhwal, Kumaon. The page is the journal's (p. 31, the passage quoting Mr Jameson); the offprint numbers it p. 8.
  • Vols I, IV and V of the Commission's report: further places are listed under each volume on the page itself; the page numbers of vol. IV are printed pages (the scanned volume sits 16 pages ahead of them), those of vols I and V the printed pages of the Wellcome Collection copy. Vol. IV: Assam Valley, Bhagalpur, Boalia, Champaran, Chota Nagpur, Dacca, Darrang, Dubalhati, Ganja Mahal, Ghumusar, Gurjat Mahals, Jessore, Jessore Sadar, Keonjhar, Khulna, Malda, Mayurbhanj, Monghyr, Murshidabad, Muzaffarpur, Mymensingh, Naogaon, Nilgiri, Orissa, Patna, Rajshahi, Rajshahi Division. Vol. V: Badhan pargana, Chaugarkha pargana, Dasholi pargana, Dewalgarh pargana, Gangoli pargana, Garhwal, Hoshiarpur, Jagadhri, Kulu, Kumaon, Malla Salan pargana, Nagpur (Garhwal) pargana, Painkhanda pargana, Talla Salan pargana. Vol. I: Angul State, Badhan pargana, Barahsyun pargana, Bashahr, Bhagalpur, Bogra, Chandpur pargana, Chaundkot pargana, Dewalgarh pargana, Dinajpur, Gangpur State, Ganja Mahal, Ganjam, Gurjat Mahals, Hill Tippera, Hoshiarpur, Jessore, Kumaon, Lahaul, Malla Salan pargana, Mymensingh, Noakhali, Rajshahi, Rishra, Shahabad, Singhbhum, Talla Salan pargana, Western Himalaya.
  • Atkinson (1882): Assi-Chalisi patti, Badhan pargana, Baraun patti, Chandpur pargana, Chaugarkha pargana, Chaundkot pargana, Darun patti, Dewalgarh pargana, Dhanpur pargana, Dhyanirau patti, Gangoli pargana, Garhwal, Gumdes patti, Lakhanpur patti, Lohba pargana, Malla Chaukot patti, Rangor patti, Salam patti, Sira pargana, Sor pargana, Uchyur patti. Pages 799–802 of the economic botany section.

Places with a page of their own

  • Ganja Mahal, Sonepur and Hill Tippera (Tripura Hills) have pages of their own, which place them on the map; their rows here carry no position.

Dates

  • The year is the year or period the source describes. Evidence given to the Commission is dated 1893–94; "before 1893" marks a witness speaking of an earlier time ("formerly", "cultivated before"), or of cases he had tried.
  • Kerr (p. 107) quotes the account of Jessore "as it existed in the year 1809".

Months

  • Months are in the source's words; separate passages are joined by an ellipsis.
  • Kulu: the Commission's report (vol. I, p. 69), after quoting a report from Kulu of 1880, gives the season of growth as "from April and May to October and November" for the Himalayan cultivation of the Punjab as a whole. It is not recorded against Kulu here.

Identification

  • Nawabganj: the Bogra witness (vol. IV, p. 78) places the Nawabganj thana in Bogra district. The position is today's Nawabganj Upazila in Dinajpur District; a thana of that name in Bogra in the 1890s would confirm or move it.
  • Garhwal, Kumaon, Gaya, Bashahr and Simla are the old districts and states, larger or smaller than any unit of today; each position is the old seat.

Positions

  • Districts, regions, parganas, pattis and other old revenue units carry no position here: no boundary or seat that the source itself names stands for them, and a point would claim more than the source says. They are in the table and in the short list at the foot of Places to check.
  • Adamdighi (24.80, 89.07): a point inside the boundary of Adamdighi Upazila (OpenStreetMap relation 14326797); the unit is about 8 km in radius.
  • Ganja Mahal: no position here (see above).
  • Keshabpur (22.87, 89.24): a point inside the boundary of Keshabpur Upazila (OpenStreetMap relation 14326908); the unit is about 10 km in radius.
  • Kotchandpur (23.46, 89.01): a point inside the boundary of Kotchandpur Upazila (OpenStreetMap relation 14326775); the unit is about 8 km in radius.
  • Mahadebpur (24.92, 88.75): a point inside the boundary of Mahadebpur Upazila (OpenStreetMap relation 14326877); the unit is about 12 km in radius.
  • Naogaon (24.81, 88.91): a point inside the boundary of Naogaon Sadar Upazila (OpenStreetMap relation 14326661); the unit is about 10 km in radius.
  • Nawabganj (25.43, 89.09): a point inside the boundary of Nawabganj Upazila (OpenStreetMap relation 14326850); the unit is about 11 km in radius.
  • Patnitala (25.10, 88.68): a point inside the boundary of Patnitala Upazila (OpenStreetMap relation 14326868); the unit is about 11 km in radius.
  • Bashahr (31.45, 77.63): Rampur (OpenStreetMap node 8018722460), the seat of the old Bashahr State, which is today's Rampur tehsil of Shimla district and Kinnaur district.
  • Boudh (20.64, 84.00): a point inside the boundary of Boudh district (OpenStreetMap relation 1984065); the unit is about 32 km in radius.
  • Garhwal (30.15, 78.78): Pauri (OpenStreetMap node 342110039), the seat of the old British Garhwal district, today's Pauri Garhwal, Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts.
  • Gaya (24.80, 85.01): Gaya (OpenStreetMap node 245726282), the seat of the old Gaya district, since divided into five districts.
  • Hill Tippera: no position here (see above).
  • Jaunsar-Bawar (30.70, 77.87): a point inside the boundary of Chakrata tehsil (OpenStreetMap relation 9984828); the unit is about 13 km in radius.
  • Kasauli (30.90, 76.96): the town (OpenStreetMap node 3209419734).
  • Kulu (31.97, 77.10): the point of the Kullu District page.
  • Kumaon (29.60, 79.66): Almora (OpenStreetMap node 245768522), the seat of the old Kumaon district, today's Almora, Bageshwar, Pithoragarh and Champawat districts.
  • Lahaul (32.54, 77.20): a point inside the boundary of Lahaul (OpenStreetMap relation 9972676); the unit is about 40 km in radius.
  • Simla (31.10, 77.17): Shimla (OpenStreetMap node 316417040), the seat of the old Simla district, a few small tracts, much smaller than today's Shimla district.
  • Sonepur: no position here (see above).
  • Badalgachhi (24.97, 88.93): OpenStreetMap relation/14326667 (boundary/administrative), point inside boundary.
  • Cossipore (22.62, 88.37): OpenStreetMap node/6196153193 (place/suburb).

Passages not used

  • Each of these passages names the place but does not say outright that the plant was grown there (a ban, a guess, a ranking of drugs, a place named only as a division or a witness's district), or the place cannot be told with confidence from the passage: Almora (IHDC vol. I); Balasore (IHDC vol. IV); Baluchara (IHDC vol. IV); Bhagalpur (IHDC vol. I); Bogra (IHDC vol. IV); Bogra (Papers on the consumption of ganja 1893); Bogra (Kerr 1877); Cachar (IHDC vol. I); Chamba (IHDC vol. I); Chittagong (IHDC vol. IV); Chota Nagpur (IHDC vol. I); Cooch Behar (IHDC vol. I); Cossipore (Watt 1889); Cuttack (IHDC vol. I); Dacca (IHDC vol. I); Dinajpur (IHDC vol. IV); Dinajpur (Kerr 1877); Garhwal (Kerr 1877); Gobindpur (O'Malley 1916); Gundi (IHDC vol. IV); Gurjat Mahals (Prain 1893); Gurjat Mahals (Kerr 1877); Jessore (IHDC vol. I); Kangra (IHDC vol. V); Kashmir (IHDC vol. I); Kirtipur (O'Malley 1916); Kumaon (IHDC vol. V); Lakhimpur (IHDC vol. IV); Midnapore (IHDC vol. I); Muradpur (O'Malley 1916); Orissa (Prain 1893); Patna (IHDC vol. I); Patna (IHDC vol. V); Plach (IHDC vol. I); Rajshahi (Papers on the consumption of ganja 1893); Rajshahi Division (IHDC vol. I); Rishra (Watt 1889); Saidpur pargana (Kerr 1877); Sambalpur (IHDC vol. I); Sibsagar (IHDC vol. I); Tehri Garhwal State (IHDC vol. I); Gurjat Mahals (IHDC vol. I); Kulu (IHDC vol. V); Lakhimpur (IHDC vol. I); Orissa (IHDC vol. I); Central Provinces (Kerr 1877); Cherukkallayi (Papers on the consumption of ganja 1893); Chingleput (Papers on the consumption of ganja 1893); Ernad (Papers on the consumption of ganja 1893); Ganjam (IHDC vol. I); North Arcot (Kerr 1877); Poonamallee (Papers on the consumption of ganja 1893); South Arcot (Papers on the consumption of ganja 1893); South Canara (Papers on the consumption of ganja 1893); Ghazipur (IHDC vol. I); Mirzapur (IHDC vol. I).
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