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The Vedas mention a beer-like drink called sura. [2] It was the favourite of the god Indra. [8] Sura is also mentioned in the Ramayana. [9] Megasthenes has recorded usage of rice beer in India. Kautilya has also mentioned two intoxicating beverages made from rice called Medaka and Prasanna. [9]
Chuak – a drink from Tripura made from rice, jackfruit and pineapple; Desi daru; Feni – an alcoholic beverage made from cashew apple or coconut in Goa; Gudamaba – brewed from sugar cane in Hyderabad; Handia – rice beer popularly consumed in Jharkhand; Hariya; Kaid Um – drink in Meghalaya, consumed mostly by Khasi and Jaintia tribes
Alcohol is a subject in the State List under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. [10] [11] [12] Therefore, the laws governing alcohol vary from state to state. Liquor in India is generally sold at liquor stores, restaurants, hotels, bars, pubs, clubs and discos but not online.
The temperance movement in India often led to the prohibition of alcohol in various states, as with Manipur. [5] In British India, many Indian temperance activists agitated for prohibition in the country. [6] Mahatma Gandhi was a champion of the temperance movement and viewed foreign rule as an obstacle to national prohibition. [7]
Evidence of fermentation and alcoholic beverages has been found in the Indus valley civilization during the Chalcolithic Period from 3000 BC to 2000 BC in India. [4] In Ancient India, the Vedas mention a beer-like drink called sura. [5] It was the favourite of the god Indra.
India: Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in India but can not be considered the national drink. Lassi or Chaas is another yogurt-based drink and can be sweet or salty. Lassi or Chaas is a blend of yogurt , water, spices and sometimes fruit like mango .
Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) is the official term used by governments, businesses and media in India to refer to all types of liquor manufactured in the country other than indigenous alcoholic beverages such as feni, toddy, arrack and others.
The method for preparation appears in the Atharvaveda [2] in the Kandas 5 and 8.. In Buddhist texts surāh is mentioned as one of intoxicating drinks, along with meraya (Sanskrit maireya, a drink made with sugar cane and several spices [3]) and majja (maybe equivalent of Sanskrit madhu, mead or hydromel), and renunciation of its usage constitutes the 5th of the Buddhist precepts (pañca ...