Alcohol appeared in several varieties in South Asia during the seventeenth century. This
object lived different lives in that it was produced locally as well as brought from Europe …

What makes the event in West Bengal so intriguing is, then, not only the scale of the tragedy
but also that it reminded a world-wide audience of a fact that is hardly part of the public …

This article traces the transformation of liquor and industrial alcohol into a commercial
product in twentieth-century colonial India. Liquor (alcoholic beverages for human …

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The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in
Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra …

This paper traces the role of alcohol production and use in the daily lives of people in India,
from ancient times to the present day. Alcohol use has been an issue of great ambivalence …

A few days before Christmas 2011 an incident that occurred in the Indian province of West
Bengal made it to the breaking news of the national news-chains. From there it circulated to …

Following a series of aggressive military campaigns across India, by the early nineteenth
century, the East India Company had secured a more definitive political space for itself in …

Drinking did not only play an important role in the social life of the Raj, it also provides a
useful lens to look at the structure of British colonial presence in the Indian subcontinent and …

Grape wine is not mentioned in our earliest texts from South Asia, the Vedas nor in the epics,
yet these texts contain evidence of an established drinking culture based on grain and …