CH. VII.] REPORT OF THE INDIAN HEMP DRUGS COMMISSION, 1893-94. 123

cultivation extends to between 300 and 400 acres. The Director of Agriculture
states that the outturn may be taken to be 5 or 6 maunds per acre. The total
produce of the State would then be about 2,000 maunds. The memorandum
states that the local production is sufficient to meet the requirements of the
people in ordinary seasons. It is only in abnormal years that exports to, or
imports from, British territory take place. The average of these for the last five
years is 75 maunds of import and 10 maunds of export.

Rajputana.

330. The Rajputana States appear to grow most of the bhang they require,
and to import ganja and charas. The trade in charas
is mostly in the hands of travelling Kabulis, called
in these parts Vilayatis; but bhang and ganja are transported by the local traders
of all grades, from Marwaris in a large way of business to Tambolis (pan sellers)
and grocers. The following facts about the trade in some of the States are re-
ported:—

Kotah.—A small quantity of bhang is locally produced. Ganja is imported
from Jhallawar, Gwalior, and Tonk. No charas has been imported for some
years.

Jhallawar.—About 140 maunds of ganja and 26 of bhang are said to be
produced locally. About 90 maunds of bhang and ganja are imported and 105
maunds exported annually. The returns do not distinguish between the two
drugs. There is no information about charas.

Jeypore.—It is reported that 10,000 maunds of bhang are produced locally.
It looks as if the figure was a clerical error, for the export from the State is small,
and the local consumption cannot be very enormous. This amount would
represent 1,000 acres of cultivation, and the account of the cultivation does
not justify the belief that there is anything approaching that area. Bhang of a
superior kind is imported to the amount of 64 maunds; of ganja 54 maunds and
of charas 129 maunds are brought in from the Punjab; 27 maunds of bhang
are exported.

Kishengarh.—Ganja and bhang are locally produced to a small extent,
but they are both also imported,—the former from Malwa, and the latter from Jey-
pore. Charas is also imported. Figures are not given. There are no exports.

Bikanir.—Some 13 maunds of bhang are produced locally, but no ganja or
charas. The three drugs are all imported from the Punjab, Indore, and Jeypore.
The bhang, which seems to come through Bhartpur, is called thatia, probably
the same word as tatia, the name of the bhang produced in Farakhabad and
Hardoi, derived, as Mr. Stoker explains, from a village of the name in the former
district. Charas is of two kinds, Indori and Yarkandi; the former name would
indicate manufacture in Indore, of which there is no decided proof. The only
places in Central India where there is information of any manufacture of this drug
are Gwalior and Bhopawar. The import of charas appears to be about 16 maunds
and of ganja 4. It is possible that this ganja is what is known in the State as
Indori charas; for the two drugs are mixed up in the accounts, and in one place
it is stated that there is no import of ganja. Of bhang, 126 maunds are
imported.