Talk:Lutki

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Use this page for verification notes, disputes, and action items. Keep narrative content on the article.

Page scope

The page treats lutki, the name recorded in the Punjab for bhang taken in country liquor.

Data verification

Record source conflicts, dating problems and sources not used here. Keep narrative content on the article.

Discussion

Sources

• Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, vol. I, ch. VIII, para. 425, p. 157, is cited from the page image, where the word is printed in italics as lutki.
• Bhagwan Das (vol. V, Punjab witness no. 36, answer 29, p. 431) is cited from the text layer of the volume; he capitalises the name, Lutki. The commission's report does not name its witness for the word. A text-layer search of the Punjab evidence found no other witness who uses it, so the two citations may be one account; the article does not say that the report drew on him.

Is it cannabis?

• Bhagwan Das names bhang as the ingredient; the commission calls it a concoction of the hemp drugs with alcohol.

Kind and plant part

• Drink. Leaf: bhang.
• Country: India and Pakistan, because the Punjab of the 1890s, and Jhang in particular, now lies partly or wholly in Pakistan.
• Still made: not known from the sources cited.

Not used

• The commission's view that the practice implied "a recklessness in intemperance which is foreign to the Indian character" is a colonial judgement and is not reproduced in the article.
• Bhagwan Das's next sentence names another mixture, of opium, bhang, poppy heads, dhatura and country liquor. It is not on this page.