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Central India.
331. The information about production and trade in the Central India
Agency is far from complete.
Indore.—The cultivation of the Indore State is on the average about 115
acres, which would hardly yield 1,000 maunds of ganja. Mr. Gunion puts the
figure for ganja and bhang together at 900 maunds. There is an average import
of 153 maunds of ganja and 7 maunds of bhang, and an export of 377 maunds
of ganja. The volume of transport within the State is 452 maunds of ganja and
399 maunds of bhang.
Dewas.—The yearly output in Dewas is reported to be 156 maunds of
ganja and 64 maunds of bhang derived from 30 acres of cultivation.
Gwalior.—The memorandum on cultivation in the Gwalior State gives a
total area of 400 acres. This might yield as much as 3,500 maunds of ganja and
bhang together. These drugs are largely exported to the North-Western Prov-
inces and the States of Rajputana and Central India.
Other States.—There is no information as to the production in other States
of the Agency, or the volume of their trade in the hemp drugs.
Indore, Gwalior, and the Central Provinces appear to be the main
sources of ganja supply for the whole of Central India and Rajputana and the
North-Western Provinces. The evidence and general information tend to show
that Indore and Khandwa are being supplanted by Gwalior, though Khandwa
still exports largely. As in Rajputana, so in Malwa, charas is for the most part
imported from the Punjab by Kabuli traders. Rewah is said to get its supply from
Patna. The Indore statistics show no import of this drug. A small amount is
said to be made in Gwalior as a bye-product of the ganja harvest, but it must
be quite inconsiderable.
Baroda.
332. The average area of cultivation in the Baroda State is about 11 bighas
or 6 acres, of which the outturn is 76 maunds
of bhang.
It appears that early in 1892 the
system of administration was reformed. Exports have consequently ceased,
and the nature of the statistics is now materially different from what it
was before the change. In the first year of the new order of things the
trade was probably disorganised, and it will therefore be better to refer to the
figures of 1892-93 alone. These show an import of 214 maunds of ganja and
31 maunds of bhang. The retail sales of ganja in the same year were 438
maunds and of bhang 143 maunds. The ganja would appear to have come
from the Deccan, and the bhang may have been partly supplied by Gujarat; but
there is no clear information on the point. There is an export of 91 maunds
of ganja entered against the Baroda Division, but there is nothing to show that
it went out of the State. Charas is not used in the State. It may be noted
that the change in the system of administration above referred to consists in the
establishment of depôts in which all imports have to be stored, and from which
they can only be removed under permit, and apparently a great increase in
fixed duties.
Kashmir.
333. The whole of the ganja or gard bhang or chura charas which is
prepared in Kashmir, about 70 maunds, is con-
sumed locally. A considerable quantity of bhang is
carried away from Jammu into the Punjab. The quantity is not ascertainable. It
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