Ganja matters : empire and the pursuits of cannabis in British India /

"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 gan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chattopadhyaya, Utathya (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2026]
Subjects:
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.