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

ISBN: 9780415842631 ;ISBN: 0415842638 ;ISBN: 0815373414 ;ISBN: 9780815373414 ;EISBN: 1315851814 ;EISBN: 9781315851815 ;EISBN: 1317916824 ;EISBN: 9781317916826 ;EISBN: 9780415842631 ;EISBN: 9781317916819 ;EISBN: 1317916816 ;EISBN: 0415842638 ;DOI: 10.4324/9781315851815 ;OCLC: 867928764

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  • Title:
    A History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia: Intoxicating Affairs
  • Author: Fischer-Tiné, Harald ; Tschurenev, Jana
  • Tschurenev, Jana ; Fischer-Tiné, Harald
  • Subjects: Alcoholism ; Allied Health ; Asian History ; Asian Studies ; Drug traffic ; Drugs & Addiction - Medical Soc ; Historical Sociology ; Imperial & Colonial History ; India (studies of) ; Modern History 1750-1945 ; Pakistan (studies of) ; Social & Cultural History ; South Asian History ; South Asian Studies ; South Asians ; South Asians - Drug use - History ; Substance abuse ; World/International History
  • Description: At the beginning of the 21st century, alcoholism, transnational drug trafficking and drug addiction constitute major problems in various South Asian countries. The production, circulation and consumption of intoxicating substances created (and responded to) social upheavals in the region and had widespread economic, political and cultural repercussions on an international level. This book looks at the cultural, social, and economic history of intoxicants in South Asia, and analyses the role that alcohol and drugs have played in the region. The book explores the linkages between changing meanings of intoxicating substances, the making of and contestations over colonial and national regimes of regulation, economics, and practices and experiences of consumption. It shows the development of current meanings of intoxicants in South Asia – in terms of politics, cultural norms and identity formation – and the way in which the history of drugs and alcohol is enmeshed in the history of modern empires and nation states — even in a country in which a staunch teetotaller and active anti-drug crusader like Mohandas Gandhi is presented as the ‘father of the nation’. Primarily a historical analysis, the book also includes perspectives from Modern Indology and Cultural Anthropology and situates developments in South Asia in wider imperial and global contexts. It is of interest to scholars working on the social and cultural history of alcohol and drugs, South Asian Studies and Global History.
  • Publisher: London: Routledge
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 248
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780415842631
    ISBN: 0415842638
    ISBN: 0815373414
    ISBN: 9780815373414
    EISBN: 1315851814
    EISBN: 9781315851815
    EISBN: 1317916824
    EISBN: 9781317916826
    EISBN: 9780415842631
    EISBN: 9781317916819
    EISBN: 1317916816
    EISBN: 0415842638
    DOI: 10.4324/9781315851815
    OCLC: 867928764
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