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East India Company retailer licences from 1793, the Ganja Mahal supply, the 1854 wholesaler-tax turn and the 1876 licence net. Entry gains per-sentence citations and a locator. No scores or timelines changed.
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From 1793 anyone retailing ganja in Bengal, which included today's Bangladesh, had to buy a licence from the local colonial officer.[@1] Once licensed, a seller could buy as much as he wanted from the growers and sell it where he liked; the Company cared about the income, not about how much was grown or smoked.[@1]
docs/research/history-bengal-1793-2026-10-26.md +48 @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +# Research pass: Bengal 1793 licensing article and entry citations + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. The East India Company's 1793 ganja +licensing system (pop 176M, step 4) gains a properly sourced article built +from Mills's Cannabis Britannica read in the local PDF, and the entry gets +per-sentence citations plus a locator. No scores, profiles or timelines +changed. + +## What was verified (all sources actually read) + +- James H. Mills, Cannabis Britannica (OUP 2003), trade-and-taxation + chapter, local PDF: the 1793–1850s retailer-licence system (licence from + the local officer before approaching growers, then free purchase and + sale; income motive, Ganja Mahal supply); the mid-century turn (1854 + wholesaler-in-warehouse taxation with collector surveillance of + holdings and retail off-take); Act II of 1876 (cultivation licences for + surveillance, Nowgong establishment touring and estimating the February + crop, storage licences with declared amounts, export permits, weighed + purchases). +- New `articles/bangladesh-bengal-ganja-licences-1793.md` (384 words, 4 + sections, single book source cited throughout; links to the 1876 + tightening article, the 1987/1989 ban entries and /country/bd/). + Entry `bangladesh-bengal-ganja-licences-1793` keeps text and scores, + gains per-sentence citations and a locator. +- The existing Bengal articles (1876, 1878, Mahal 1854, warehouses 1904) + were listed to avoid duplication; the new piece links the 1876 one + rather than restating it. + +Claim boundaries: the article stays inside Mills's account; the +1987/1989 bans are linked entries, not restated claims. Palestine 1919 +was read in Ram (military warning, 1925 Convention and Ordinance) but +left alone — the warning plus 1925 ordinance is too thin for 350 honest +words, and the entry is already accurate. + +## Dead ends recorded, not forced + +- No second source for 1793 sought; the monograph is the authority and is + cited as such. Soviet 1974 decree text still not in readable form. + +## Verification and files + +- `node -e` YAML load of changes.yaml clean (run before build). +- `npm run build`, `npm run history:test`, `npm run answers:test` all green; + rendered `/history/bangladesh-bengal-ganja-licences-1793/` citation marks + checked. +- Commit limited to own work: the 1793 hunk in changes.yaml, the new + article, this note, via pathspec. Foreign staged/worktree files excluded + and preserved.