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Sonepur treats the former cannabis growing area of the Sonepur State, now Subarnapur District, in the Garhjat growing region: the round ganja grown in its villages until the ban of 1889. The neighbouring Boad State, where growing went on, is part of the region but not of this area. The district as an administrative unit is treated at Subarnapur District.
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Why the area is mapped
- T. R. Sathe, Diwan of the Sonepur State, told the Hemp Drugs Commission (Vol. VI, Central Provinces witness 13, answer 7): "There was uncontrolled cultivation of the plant in the Sonepur State almost in every village before 1889 for the production of round ganja. It has been stopped since 1889 under Government orders."
- The Central Provinces memorandum (Vol. III, para. 65, p. 74) names Sonpur among the three feudatory States whose chiefs had not suppressed cultivation by 1887.
Growing status
The status is No longer grown: Sathe says cultivation stopped in 1889 under Government orders, so the last year is 1889 and the reason is a ban. No source read gives a first year ("before 1889"). No source read reports cultivation in Subarnapur District since then. A 2026 news item on ganja seized from a truck at Sonpur is a trafficking case, not evidence of growing, and is not listed here.
How the border is drawn
- The border is Subarnapur District in OpenStreetMap (administrative relation 1984027), simplified, about 2,370 km², the district that succeeded the Sonepur State. Sathe's evidence covers the State as a whole, so the whole district is drawn.
- The map point (20.93, 83.82) is the centre of the district; the border is not drawn from it.
Sources
- Hemp Drugs Commission. Sathe's evidence (Vol. VI, pp. 20–24) was read in the OCR text, with pp. 20–21 checked on the page image; the oral answers (on "rengal", on planting out in Boad and Athmallik, and on Khandwa ganja) are on pp. 23–24. The Central Provinces memorandum, p. 74, was read on the page image; its year for the enquiry on the feudatories is 1887.
- Spelling. Sathe writes "Sonepur"; the Central Provinces memorandum and the Commission's report write "Sonpur". The article uses Sonepur and keeps Sonpur where it follows the memorandum.
Where the sources disagree
- Answer 9 and Sonepur. Sathe's account of how ganja was grown (answer 9) describes "villages known to me" in the present tense, after growing had stopped in Sonepur; in his oral evidence he says that planting out was the custom in Boad and Athmallik and had been in Sonepur. The article gives answer 9 as his account of the villages he knew, and the oral answer for Sonepur.