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Page scope

Malana is the Locality page for the village of Malana (2011 census village code 012882), which gives its name to eight accessions. The growing area of the whole valley is Malana Valley, which also carries the village's history, culture and demography at length; the people are Malana people; the cannabis-terroir unit is Malana (appellation) and the plant population Malana population. The other settlements of the valley have their own pages: Nirang, Wailing, Atolang, Waichin and Mejigh.

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Discussion

Title

• No other place called Malana has a page here. en.wikipedia's "Malana" is a list of places of the name, the others in Pakistan; its village article is "Malana, Himachal Pradesh".

Coordinates and elevation

• The infobox point, 32.0618, 77.2600, is the OpenStreetMap node for the village (node 756382662, place=village). SRTM gives 2,651 m there.
• The Zomia village accessions store 32.062847, 77.263221 at 2,494 m (SRTM 2,542 m at that point). The infobox range, 2,494–2,651 m, spans the stored value and the SRTM height at the node.
• Rosser: "just under 9000 feet" (Axelby 2015, p. 38). The resurvey: "about 9000 ft." (§2.1). The collection documentation: "Malana Village at 2600m", with its village lots at 2,400–2,800 m.
• The Real Seed Company and Vibes Collective accessions store 32.06, 77.26. The Vibes Collective strainguide entry gives "32.4,77.16,4" as its map setting.

Administration

• The 2011 census lists the village in Kullu sub-district. The district's list of gram panchayats files Malana under "Naggar (40 Gram Panchayats)". The Zomia accession pages give Bhuntar Tehsil and Bhuntar Block; the infobox follows them for the tehsil, as the other Locality pages of the valley do. The block question (the zila parishad ward notices of 2025 and 2026) is set out on Talk:Malana Valley.

Source notes

• The two halves. The resurvey: "The upper portion called Dhara Behr on the West, and the lower portion called Sara Behr on the East" (§2.1). Axelby's 2023 foreword puts Dhara Behr on the east. The article gives upper and lower only. The resurvey spells the central place "Harcha"; Axelby writes "Harchar".
• The fire. Axelby: "In November 2008 a devastating fire tore though the Sara Behr half of the village consuming the central temple and the Pujara's house" (2015, p. 54, n. 16). The resurvey: "A fire accident in year 2007 left a large portion of main Malana village gutted" (§4.5), and "the fire accident in 2007-08" (§5.2). The article gives both and does not say they are one event. Two press reports of January 2008 are discussed on Talk:Malana Valley.
• The resurvey and Axelby. Parts of the resurvey's §2.8 and §6.34 repeat Axelby 2015 nearly word for word (set out on Talk:Malana Valley). The article cites the resurvey for its own counts and observations: its location and land figures, the sub-divisions, the household census, the roads and the field seen in October 2017.
• Sub-divisions and fields. The resurvey's six sub-divisions are "Malana, Thosko, Nerong, Dhadon, Magic Valley and Bhelag" (§2.1). OpenStreetMap has an isolated dwelling "Thoshko Sharn" at 32.0551, 77.2460, within 60 m of the stored point of the Zomia "Tosco" field accession (ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220025), and one "Bhelang Sharn" at 32.0468, 77.2408. The Tribune (2019) lists "Bhelang" and "Thisco" among Kullu's cannabis areas; a Press Trust of India report of 2026 lists "Thicho". No source states that these names are one place, so the article does not join them. Tosco stays a locality value of its own.
• Glenu. The article gives the name as Axelby reports the Malani accounts. Axelby's identification of Glenu with a named author, and that man's arrest in 2010, are on Malana Valley.

Accessions

• Eight accessions carry Malana as their locality: four Zomia accessions from the 2022 harvest (ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220023, 0024, 0026, 0027), RSC-IND-HIM-0120210001, VIB-IND-HIM-0100000001, COC-IND-HIM-0100000004 and COC-IND-HIM-0100000006. The Zomia "Tosco" selection (ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220025) carries Tosco.
• The "Malndr" selection (ZOM-IND-HIM-1020220026) stores no coordinates or elevation; the collection documentation gives 2,600–3,000 m for it.
• The collection documentation lists its Malana general population as from the "2012, 2014, 2022, 2023" seasons and its selections as from 2022 and 2023; the accession pages record the 2022 harvest.

Other reports

• Punjab Kesari, 27 September 2026, on the destruction of cannabis at Tosh and Malana: Tosh reports 25 ha for the two places together, and Malana Valley reports about 15 ha at Malana. Not re-read at source for this page; not used.
• The collection documentation's prices for charas from the village are not used.