Modern India

Temperance Movement

English

PeriodProminent from the 1920s–30s Exam importanceMedium

A social reform campaign advocating abstinence from alcohol, which nationalist leaders (including Gandhi) also adopted as a form of protest, picketing liquor shops as part of the broader Civil Disobedience Movement to hurt colonial excise revenue.

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