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Nimar treats the cannabis growing region of the Narmada valley in western Madhya Pradesh: the licensed ganja cultivation of British Nimar in the 1890s, the cultivation of the same years in the Indore State's lands along the river, and the fields reported in Barwani and Khargone districts since 2022. Its growing areas are Khandwa (historical) and Barwani. The districts as administrative units are treated at Khandwa District, Khargone District and Barwani District.

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Why the region is mapped

British Nimar. The Government of India's resolution of 21 March 1895 (para. 9) and the Hemp Drugs Commission's evidence place the Central Provinces' licensed cultivation in the western half of the Khandwa tahsil of the Nimar district from 1890–91, and among the chief places of cultivation since at least 1871–72.
The Indore State's Nimar. The Central Provinces memorandum (Vol. III, p. 61) records ganja grown in seven villages round Sanawad in 1879–80, about 1,500 maunds a year, and calls the Sanawad pargana a place where ganja was "largely grown" in 1893 (p. 73). The Indore State memorandum (p. 164) confines the State's cultivation to "a few mahals in the Nimar district, bordering on the Narbada", and to Sanwer. Sanawad today lies in Khargone District.
Since 2000. The Free Press Journal reports cannabis fields in Barwani District (Malphalya, October 2022; Shakkarkua–Borpadava and Varla, September 2026) and in Khargone District (Kabri Dhudhiya, October 2022; Jamli and Guwada Thatta Phalia, September 2026).
No source read calls Nimar a cannabis region in so many words. The region is the frame that joins the colonial tract and the recent fields, which lie in the same valley.

Growing status

The status is Active: cultivation in the region is reported in 2022 and 2026. The colonial tract in the Khandwa tahsil is a separate, historical growing area, Khandwa.

How the border is drawn

The border is the union of three districts in OpenStreetMap: Khandwa (administrative relation 1976214), Khargone (1976215) and Barwani (1976212), simplified, about 20,900 km². These are the present districts that hold the places the sources name: Khandwa town and the old Khandwa tahsil's country, Sanawad and the 2022 and 2026 Khargone raids, and the Barwani raids. No source read maps the 1890s tahsils onto the present districts; the old Nimar district also had a detached Kanapur-Beria tract beyond the Sanawad pargana (Central Provinces memorandum, p. 73), whose present district has not been checked.
Burhanpur District, which takes its name from the Burhanpur tahsil of the old Nimar district, is left out. Robertson's evidence of 1893 says the cultivators of Burhanpur were said to know nothing of growing ganja, and no later source read reports cultivation there.
Alirajpur District, north-west of Barwani, is outside the border. A raid at Chhota Itara in Alirajpur District, reported by Bhaskar English on 11 October 2026 (the news item of that date), is not placed in Nimar, because Alirajpur is not part of Nimar.
The map point (21.95, 75.75) is a central point of the three districts; the border is not drawn from it or from any news point.

Sources

Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894. Read in the OCR text of Vols. I, III and VI, with the page images of Vol. III pp. 61, 158, 159 and 164 checked. Gunion's memorandum on Central India begins on p. 158, where the passage on the Bhopawar Agency stands; the Indore minister's account of cultivation that he quotes continues on p. 159.
Government of India, Resolution No. 1369 Ex., 1895. Para. 9, p. 4.
Free Press Journal. Each article cited was read in full. The reports give police figures; plant counts, weights and values are the police's.

Where the sources disagree

When licensing began. The Government of India's resolution (para. 9) says licensing had been in force since 1873–74, the year the Commission's statistics begin; the Central Provinces memorandum (pp. 57–58) dates the rules that forbade unlicensed cultivation to April 1875 and the first acreage fee to 1875–76. The article attributes 1873–74 to the resolution; Khandwa gives the 1875 rules.
When Khandwa became the only tract. Drake-Brockman's evidence gives "since the close of the year 1889-90", the resolution of 1895 "since 1890-91", and Robertson's figures are consistent with both. The article follows the resolution.