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USE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS
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with disgust in other parts of the country, is here regarded
as a sign of good breeding and is most carefully observed 1
The use of intoxicating liquors, which is condemned by
respectable people throughout almost the whole of India,
is nevertheless permitted amongst the people who dwell in
the jungles and hill tracts of the West Coast. There the
leading castes of Sudras, not excepting