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Answer No. 189.
20. Total strength of regiment—810.
COMBATANTS. NON-COMBA-
TANTS.
CASTE.
Subadars. Jemadars.
Havildars.
Naigues. Buglers. Privates. Total. Followers. Private. Total.
(1) Muhammadans.
Northern Circars, including
Northern Coast collccto-
rates
Northern Circars, including
Northern Coast collccto-
rates
1
13 14
Central and Southern Carn-
atic (Madras, Chingle-
put, Vellore, Arcot, etc.,
Trichinopoly)
Central and Southern Carn-
atic (Madras, Chingle-
put, Vellore, Arcot, etc.,
Trichinopoly)
Central and Southern Carn-
atic (Madras, Chingle-
put, Vellore, Arcot, etc.,
Trichinopoly)
3 2 9 16
153 183 9 1 10
Salem, Coimbatore
1 1
7 9
Ceded Districts (Bellary,
Carnool, Cuddapah)
3 3
Tanjore, Madura, Tinne
villy
Tanjore, Madura, Tinne
villy
1
9 10
Malabar (including South
Canara),
1 1
Belgaum
1 1
Central Provinces
1 1
Mysore
1
12 13
Hyderabad
1
1
15 17 1
1
(2) Hindus.
Tamils
2 2
96 100 9
9
Agambadians, Moravers,
Cullers
Agambadians, Moravers,
Cullers
1
37 38
Telugus (a) Bulgewars
from Northern Circars
2 2 12 12
187 215 1
1
Telugus (b) other parts
of Southern India
1 2 7 5
57 72 2 1 3
Pariahs
2
7 9
Brahmins
6 6
Mahrattas
1 3
5 9
Rajputs
6 6
Doriahs
2 2
Indo-Britons
3
3
Native
Christians
1 1 13 48 63
Other castes
1 2
31 34 2
2
Europeans
1
1
Total
7 7 41 41 17 697 810 24 2 26
The two privates shown as non-combatants are hospital war
orderlies.
(a) Are called Genius, see below.
(b) Are reckented as Tamils. see below.
No men in this regiment smoke charas.
Ganja-smokers as follows:—
Mussalmans
28
Gentus
20
Tamils
25
Brahmin
1
Mahratta
1
Rajput
1
Other castes (including
Pariahs, Pullers, Chuck-
lers, Dhobis, Barbers)
Other castes (including
Pariahs, Pullers, Chuck-
lers, Dhobis, Barbers)
Other castes (including
Pariahs, Pullers, Chuck-
lers, Dhobis, Barbers)
11
TOTAL
82
All these men are combatants.
24. (a) The only eater of bhang in this regiment
is a Mussalman, combatant.
(b) No men drink it.
25. At present stationary, but probably, now
that the regiment has come on foreign service to
Burma, will increase, the men hoping thereby to
avoid the ill-effects of the climate.
28. The average daily allowance is about 3/4 of a
tola in weight, and the average daily cost about
9 pies.
32. Mussalmans have a custom of offering the
drug as follows:—
Should a habitual ganja-consumer die, an offer¬
ing of the drug is made on the 40th day after
decease and afterwards on the annual anniversary
of decease, the amount so offered on conclusion of
these ceremonies being consumed on the spot or
given away.
Hindus worship the drug at uncertain times of
the year, naming such worship Madreevera, Moo-
nisvecra, etc.
33. This is regarded unfavourably, as when men
take it to excess they are a nuisance to their
neighbours and hence the whole of ganja-smoking
people are branded with the same stigma.
Please see answer to question No. 32.
39. I believe smoking to be less prejudicial than
eating or drinking the drug. This opinion is
founded on general testimony to that effect.
41. I think not. It is probable that the tempo¬
rary exhilarating and sustaining effects are
exaggerated by the devotees of the drug, and that
they are too dearly purchased, but it is possible
that deprivation of ganja might drive moderate
consumers of it, in some instances, to excess in
alcohol, or to other and perhaps more deleterious
drugs.
42. I know moderate smokers who show no
obvious impairment of moral or physical health.
These are, perhaps, instances of survival of the
fittest.
43. Yes.
44. Habitual consumers are not affected much.
They say it is refreshing. If the usual allow¬
ance is suddenly increased, intoxication is produced,
but not otherwise. It is said to allay hunger and
consequently does not create appetite.
This depends upon the amount taken.
No.
45. Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
It tends to produce or aggravate these affec¬
tions.
It impairs self-control, and so tends to induce
bad habits, generally.
It tends to loss of self-control and weakens
reasoning power. I think it may bo a direct, as
well as a predisposing, cause of insanity, though, as
in the case of syphilis, it is probable that post hoc
is too often taken to be propter hoc. In subacute
cases the form is as above stated, and is often
temporary only; after large doses, acute mania is
common. I have 4 cases fresh in my recollection
(2 Mussalmans and 2 Hindus) in whom recovery
or marked improvement followed on disconti¬
nuance of the drug. I think that deficiency of
self-control, or actual brain disease, and the ganja
habit, act and re-act upon one another.
46. It produces general emaciation, impairment
of mental power and self-control. A tendency to
certain disorders already mentioned, and, in some
cases, to acute mania.
49. I think it has little or no effect of this sort,
and the fact that it is often used by fakirs tends to
negative this supposition.