what is Anti-Arrack movement?explain in brief
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Anti-arrack movement, a women’s movement was organised in the state of Andhra Pradesh against alcoholism. It targeted the strong nexus between the government and the mafia. The movement raised the following issues:
a. Women who were part of the Adult Literacy Drive complained of increased consumption of local alcohol arrack by men impacting their physical and mental health.
b. The continuous use of alcohol also economically and financially ruined the families.
c. Women also became target of domestic violence of men. Thus, for first time, issues regarding domestic violence were raised at a public platform, reinforcing the notion of ‘personal is political’.
d. Increased consumption of alcohol affected the rural economy of the region. Indebtedness grew with increasing scales of consumption of alcohol because of frequent absenteeism of men from jobs. The contractors of alcohol engaged in crime for securing their monopoly over the arrack trade.
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The anti-Arrack movement was a mass uprising of women against the production and sale of country liquor – arrack. Stemming out of recognition of the effects of liquor consumption among rural women in Andhra Pradesh, the movement became one of the biggest agitations lead by women as a collective against the state and its agencies, leading to the total prohibition of production of illicit liquor in the state.
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