An unholy brew : alcohol in Indian history and religions / James McHugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McHugh, James (James Andrew), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--India.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations (colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'An Unholy Brew' uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore intoxicating drinks and styles of drinking, as well as sophisticated rationales for abstinence found in South Asia from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE.

Contents:

Cover

An Unholy Brew

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Aperitif: Surā, the Prototypical Liquor of India

ROUND ONE DRINKS AND DRINKING

Cup 1: Surā Made from Grains

Cup 2: Sugarcane, Wine, Toddy, and Other Drinks

Cup 3: Surā Brewing and Public Drinking

Cup 4: Luxurious, Erotic Drinking in Literary Texts

Cup 5: Drink, Health, and Disease in Āyurvedic Texts

ROUND TWO DRINK AND RELIGION

Cup 6: Drink in Ritual, Myths, and Epic

Cup 7: The Filth of Grain and the Pain of Drink: Morality, Vice, and Law

Cup 8: Surā Regained: Drink in Tantra

Cup 9: Firewater and Corpse-​Reviver: Alcohol in Later Sanskrit Sources

Digestif: What Do We Do about This Stuff That Makes Everything Go Awry?

Appendix: Soma, Ancient Drugs, and Modern Scholars

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-760304-1

0-19-760303-3

OCLC:

1256591121