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  title info:
    title: Ganja matters
    sub title: empire and the pursuits of cannabis in British India
  name:
    name part: Chattopadhyaya, Utathya
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 296 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Ganja is the popular name in Hindustani, Bengali, and other South Asian languages for intoxicating substances produced from the plant species Cannabis sativa L. Starting in the eighteenth century, British India's colonial administrators sought ways to systematically tax and govern how ganja circulated from the farms of peasant families in rural Bengal to pipes, plates, and cups elsewhere in the subcontinent. Ganja Matters follows the perpetual incongruity between regulatory efforts to pursue the plant through botanical observation, colonial reportage, and excise statistics and the leisurely, devotional, and creative ganja pursuits among people. Utathya Chattopadhyaya offers a social history of ganja in a multispecies framework that reveals how the cannabis plant co-constituted histories of empire, gender, subalternity, and labor under British rule. Against the weight of the criminalization and 'drug-ness' of cannabis, Chattopadhyaya puts the multidirectional and polysemic history of ganja as plant matter at the center of analysis"--
  table of contents: Introduction : the pursuits of cannabis -- A troubling subject -- A small peasant commodity -- An excise state -- An insurgent body -- A subaltern deity -- A cooperative experiment -- Coda : ganja and the nation.
  note: Utathya Chattopadhyaya.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC BY-SA) license. To view a copy of the license, visit. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Bhang (Drug)
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Bhang (Drug)
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Bhang (Drug)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Cannabis
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Cannabis
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Cannabis
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Bhang (Drogue)
    topic: Aspect politique
    geographic: Inde
  subject:
    topic: Bhang (Drogue)
    topic: Aspect social
    geographic: Inde
  subject:
    topic: Bhang (Drogue)
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Bhang (Drug)
  subject:
    geographic: India
  classification: HV5822.C3 C43 2026
  classification: 362.295
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    title info:
      title: Ganja matters
    name:
      name part: Chattopadhyaya, Utathya.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2026]
    identifier: (DLC) 2026004167
  identifier: 9780520425682
  identifier: 0520425685
  identifier: 9780520425699
  identifier: 0520425693
  identifier: 9780520425705
  identifier: 2026004166
  access condition: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC BY-SA) license. To view a copy of the license, visit.
  record info:
    record content source: CU-S/DLC
    record creation date: 260202
    record change date: 20260728151504.6
    record identifier: in00005790612
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng