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Was cannabis grown in Ladakh?
The colonial sources disagree, and the page gives each with its author:
- Captain Ramsay, Joint Commissioner at Leh, wrote that in Ladakh charas "of course could not be grown", and that the charas entered under Ladakh in the Punjab trade returns was Yarkand charas in transit. The Punjab memorandum in volume III of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission's report quotes his letter (p. 48).
- George Watt listed Ladakh with Nepal, Kashmir and Afghanistan as mountain tracts where charas came from the cultivated plant. The page cites his article as reprinted in the House of Commons return of 1893 (p. 156).
- The Commission noted that Punjab Products mentioned bhang and fibre sent from Kashmir and Ladakh to the Punjab Exhibition, and thought they might have come from wild plants (vol. I, para. 217).
Lachman Das's informants
The Commission's evidence volume (vol. V, witness 86, p. 505) has Lachman Das learning about cultivation in Yarkand "from Yarkand merchants" he met in Ladakh. The report's own summary (vol. I, ch. VI, para. 245) quotes the same answer as learnt "from Ladakh merchants". This page uses only his account of the route, which both versions share.
Districts
Ladakh had two districts, Leh and Kargil, until 27 April 2026, when Sham, Nubra, Changthang, Zanskar and Drass were added. The population figures on the page come from the Leh and Kargil district administrations and describe the two districts before the division. The districts are named in plain text; none has a page yet.
Leh
Leh redirects to the page's Trade and commerce section, which is what every page linking to Leh is about.