An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions

An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions
ISBN-10
0199375933
ISBN-13
9780199375936
Category
History
Pages
408
Language
English
Published
2021
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
James McHugh

Description

The first book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore intoxicating drinks and styles of drinking, as well as sophisticated rationales for abstinence found in South Asia from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE.

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