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Write approximately 150 words on Women’s role in anti-arrack movement.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 10 marks
  • Social Movements

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Arrack, a cheap distilled country spirit, was sold in Andhra Pradesh through state-licensed auctions that made excise a major revenue head. The anti-arrack agitation of 1992–93 is the clearest Indian case of poor rural women, without a party or an urban organisation behind them, forcing a state-level change in policy.

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  • Origins: a literacy class becomes a movement
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