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cultivator in the Gurjats is a ganja vendor. The
Gurjat men now require very little ganja to buy,
for almost all of them cultivate ganja for their
own use. Every ganja cultivator within the
prohibited area sells ganja freely, which is opposed
to Government Order No. 0./103.5, dated the 8th
February 1889, and should therefore be stopped
by again prohibiting the cultivation of ganja
within three miles of the frontier. A wholesale
prohibition of the cultivation of ganja is out of the
question in a tract where the plant is indigenous,
and where there is neither the will on the part of
chiefs nor the establishment to enforce such a
prohibition.
Balasore.—Bhang is regularly smuggled into
the district from the Gurjat States, and the demand
for the duty-paid bhang is very small (only 2
maunds 7 seers 6 chittacks of bhang was con¬
sumed in the whole district in 1892-93, and the
total revenue derived was R140).
GANJA.
Year,
Consumption. Duty.
M. S. C.
ft
1878-79 20 28 8 3,270
1879-80 19 16 3 3,091
1880-81 19 22 9 3,129
1881-82 23 6 2 3,724
1882-83 26 33 12 4,295
1883-84 32 25 5 5,229
1884-85 34 29 0 5,572
1885-86 37 15 8 5,990
1S86-87 42 34 13 6,841
1887-88 41 9 5 6,954
1888-89 35 4 1 6,429
1889-90 35 5 15 6,055
1890-91 26 25 1 5,415
1891-92 24 32 151/2 4,962
1892-93 37 8 8 7,469
Ganja.—Since
the
withdrawal of the prohi¬
bition, the consumption
of duty-paid ganja has
greatly decreased. Ganja.
is now regularly grown
in the Gurjat States of
Mayurbhanj and Nil-
giri, and the inhabitants
of those two States take
very little supply from
our golas. Gujrat ganja
is, on the other hand, now smuggled into the
district from those two States. Since the intro¬
duction of the distillery system the poor people
have taken to the consumption of ganja.
GANJA.
Year. Consumption. Duty.
M. S.
0.
R
1878-79 98 25 7 11,326
1879-80 92 14 9 14,777
1880-81 102 9 13 16,360
1881-82 123 27 2 19,789
1882-83 128 8 6 20,513
1883-84 131 4 12 20,978
1884-85 126 0 9 20,162
1885-86 105 3 11 16,804
1886-87 116 22 0 18,660
1887-88 96 36 14 16,133
1888-89 93 11 8 18,657
1889-90 89 35 0 17,975
1890-91 77 39 7 15,597
1891-92 86 15 61/2 17,187
1892-93 91 29 2 17,831
Gurjat
Ganja
5 14 14
538
Puri.—Ganja is the second principal source of
revenue in this district. The maximum revenue,
R30,372, was derived in 1888-89, i.e., the year
just before the prohibition was withdrawn. Since
then the consumption of the duty-paid drug and
the revenue are on the
decline.
The largest
quantity of Gurjat ganja
is consumed in this dis¬
trict. In the towns of
Puri, Bhubaneswar, and
Satyabadi it is not
smoked by the pandas,
but it is smashed and
pounded and mixed with
spices, milk, and sweets,
and then drunk. It is
used in the form in which
bhang is drunk in Bengal.
The chief consumers of
the Gurjat ganja are the pandas (priests) living in
the towns of Puri, Bhubaneswar and Satyabadi. In
the interior of the district ganja is smoked by the
poorer classes. Smuggling is carried on most
extensively from the Khandpara State, and thence
through Khurda to Puri, where there is a ready
and constant market, especially among the pandas
(who are generally followers of the Siva). Traffic
by cart and pack bullocks is extensive, and nothing
is easier than to secrete ganja in bales or packages.
Only the other day 39 seers of smuggled ganja
was seized; it was being carried by two men in
bundles. There are three chief routes of smug¬
gling:—
(1) Viâ Bolghur and Bhubaneswar to Puri.
(2) Viâ Tangi by boat during the rains or
through Kanas (Chubbishkud Pargana)
to Puri.
(3) From the Madras side from Rambha by
boat over the Chilka Lake. In 1891-92
thirty cases of smuggling of Gurjat ganja
were detected. In 1892-93 thirty-nine
cases were detected.
On account of the high price of distillery liquor,
people are taking to the smoking of ganja, but
on account of large smuggling of Gurjat ganja
there has been little increase in the consumption of
and in duty on the drug. There were bhang shops
in the district formerly. No. bhang shop has
been in existence since 1886-87. There is smug¬
gling of bhang from the Gurjat States.
Cuttack.—Bhang is imported into the district
from the Gurjat States, and is called "Gurjat
siddhi." The consumption of duty-paid bhang is
very small, as the following figures will show:—
Year.
Consumption.
Revenue.
M. S. C.
ft
1890-91
3 13 8
135
1891-92
9 2 3
357
1892-93
5 5 12
394.
The revenue derived from majum is also very
small:—
Year.
No. of
license.
Revenue.
ft
1889-90
1
93
1890-91
1
63
1891-92
2
132
1892-93
2
245
Ganja.—Ganja is the second principal source of
revenue in this district. The maximum revenue,
R48,038, was derived in 1888-89. By Govern¬
ment letter No. E. I-G./24, dated 6th September
1889, the prohibition against the cultivation of
the hemp plant in the Gurjats within three miles
of the Mogulbandi has been withdrawn. Since
then the people of the Gurjats have abandoned
Rajshahi ganja almost entirely. During 1890-91
no ganja was purchased by Gurjat men; on
the contrary, a large quantity of the drug was
smuggled into the British
territory. The smuggl¬
ing is increasing every
year, and a large number
of cases of illicit posses¬
sion and sale of Gurjat
ganja have been detected.
The cultivation was pro¬
hibited by Government
Order No. 165-T., dated
the 19th October 1878.
Probably the order was
practically given effect to
in 1880-81, from which year there has been a
steady increase in the consumption of Rajshahi
ganja up to 1889-90, when the restriction having
been withdrawn by Government Order No.
E.1-G/24, dated 6th September 1889, the con¬
sumption again began to gradually fall off. The
latter order has therefore caused an unnecessary
loss in the excise revenue of the Bengal Govern¬
ment. The figures of consumption are given in the
margin. Banki and the north-western portion
of the Jajpur Sub-division are contiguous to the
Gurjat States. The wild and hilly nature of the
country with sparse population affords every faci¬
lity for smuggling. The middle class people,
Beharas, Panda Brahmins, and some of the Hatua
castes, such as Teli, Khandayets, etc., consume ganja.
Ganja is regularly cultivated in Keonjhar, Dhen-
kanal, Athgarh, Tigharia, Baramba, and Khanda-
para, and is largely smuggled at Sukinda and
other places. Ganja is also smuggled by boat
Tear. Consumption. Duty.
M. S. C. R
1878-79
129 26 2 20,242
1879-80
125 35 0 20,140
1880-81 115 27 14 18,512
1881-82
129 30 9 20,971
1882 83 160 30 9 26,062
1883-84
162 36 1 26,552
1884-85
163 6 2 26,662
18S5-86
165 36 3 26.816
1886-87
174 4 11 28,680
1887-88 164 13 4 28,198
1888-89
152 7 0 80,575
1889-90
141 7 12 28,286
1890-91 136 22 7 27,384
1891-92 112 10 3 22,498
1892-93 112 21 9 22,626