Temperance campaigns can become contests over colonial revenue and self-determination.
This is Schrad’s interpretation of selected cases, not proof that every temperance restriction was anticolonial or emancipatory.
Schrad presents Gandhi’s opposition to liquor as part of resistance to imperial exploitation, while discussing racialized liquor regulation and political status in South Africa. This frames temperance as a political-economic struggle, not simply an individual abstinence preference.
Idea
Temperance campaigns can become contests over colonial revenue and self-determination.
Reasoning
Schrad presents Gandhi’s opposition to liquor as part of resistance to imperial exploitation, while discussing racialized liquor regulation and political status in South Africa. This frames temperance as a political-economic struggle, not simply an individual abstinence preference.
Boundary
This is Schrad’s interpretation of selected cases, not proof that every temperance restriction was anticolonial or emancipatory.
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