Darinee Alagirisamy, Sober State: Origins of Alcohol Prohibition in India (Cambridge University Press, in press)
My book, Sober State: Origins of Alcohol Prohibition in India, is about to come out with Cambridge University Press. The first book on alcohol prohibition in India, Sober State addresses the question:
Why do attempts to ban alcohol persist in the world’s largest democracy and fastest-growing alcohol market?
This pioneering book draws on extensive archival research and rich vernacular sources to explain why prohibition has been a surprisingly resilient policy, despite being a “sobering” site of consensus-building for the state.
Darinee Alagirisamy 