A History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia: Intoxicating Affairs

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A History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Indian anomalies? – Drink and drugs in the land of Gandhi
Part I Trajectories: Reconstructing the history of intoxicants in the pre-colonial and early colonial periods
	1 Alcohol in pre-modern South Asia
	2 Opium, the East India Company and the ‘native’ states
Part II Cultural encounters: European alcohol and drug consumption in the situation coloniale
	3 ‘What shall become of the mission when we have such incompetent missionaries there?’: Drunkenness and mission in eighteenth century Danish East India
	4 Liquid boundaries: Race, class, and alcohol in colonial India
	5 Looking for spirituality in India: A German theosophist’s experiments with ganja (1894–1896)
Part III Nationalism and Internationalism: Contested regulatory regimes
	6 The opium question in colonial Assam
	7 Internationalizing the Indian War on Opium: Colonial policy, the nationalist movement and the League of Nations
	8 ‘Drunkards beware!’: Prohibition and nationalist politics in the 1930s
Part IV Postcolonial India: The legacy of prohibitionist politics
	9 The culture of prohibition in Gujarat, India
Afterword
Index