Prohibition : A Socio-Economic Assessment in Gujarat and Mizoram

This book, Prohibition: A Socio-Economic Assessment of Gujarat and Mizoram is a Master of Philosophy dissertation by LalnundikaHnamte under the supervision of Prof. I. Ramabrahmam in the Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad in 2012. This book makes an attempt to comprehensively assess the socio-economic conditions of Gujarat and Mizoram under the policy of alcohol prohibition. In the book, readers can find the nature of alcohol policy in India, the origin and development of prohibition movement, the role of civil. society in regards to alcohol policy and the socio-economic conditions of Gujarat and Mizoram such as health, standard of living, crime, direct and indirect prohibition-related costs etc. in comparison with their neighboring wet states.