Andhra Pradesh Earned Rs 812 Crore from Arrack in a Year, Until Its Poorest Women Rose in Protest
In 1991, a group of women in Dubagunta, a village in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district, walked to the local arrack shop with broomsticks, sticks and chilli powder, and forced it to shut. Many had only recently learnt to read at an adult literacy night school. Two years later, what became known as the anti-arrack movement had travelled across the state and pushed the government to ban arrack, the…
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