Last July 10,000 Hindus marched through the streets of Ahmedabad pulling a chariot on which stood six youths lustily cudgeling a grotesque image labeled DEMON LIQUOR. At the city's boundary 62-year-old Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of Mahatma M. K. Gandhi's trusted lieutenants and legislative coordinator for the Indian National Congress Party, stepped forward to set fire to Demon Liquor. Thus did the prohibition crusade, which Sardar Patel called the "first and right step toward Swaraj (Indian independence)," come to Ahmedabad, "Manchester of India."
Since that time the Congress has edged up on prohibition in many ways, hopes to make British...
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