Sober State - Couverture souple

Alagirisamy, Darinee

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009683152 ISBN 13 : 9781009683159

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

This book traces the origins and evolution of alcohol prohibition in India, drawing on extensive archival research and rich vernacular sources to explain its surprising resilience over time. Since its inception in the independence movement, prohibition has functioned as both an ideal and a tool of state power - a dual role that has worked to shape its shifting trajectories. Foregrounding intersections with caste and gender, the book illuminates how diverse social responses have made prohibition a deeply contested. Each phase of the enforcement of prohibition has served to reaffirm its founding logic, thereby further embedding it in the machinery of governance. While prohibition may be a thing of the past in the West, in India, history keeps it alive as a manifestation of postcolonial governmentality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Darinee Alagirisamy is a historian and Lecturer at National University of Singapore, where she currently teaches courses in Indian history and culture in the South Asian Studies Programme. Her research engages with social exclusion and marginalisation in the context of late colonialism from the perspective of regional, national, and transnational reform movements. She has been a Gates Cambridge scholar and held the Holland Rose Studentship. Her research has been published in Modern Asian Studies and The Indian Economic and Social History Review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009683152
• ISBN 13: 9781009683159
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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