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23. G.O. No. 402 dated 24.4.93. Announcing the ban the chief minister, Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy said that total prohibition was the 'policy of the Congress Party right from the start' and the ban had nothing to do with the crusade launched by the Telugu Desam.
24. We use the word 'Romantic' as shorthand for the free/ agentive, expressive, spontaneous rebel subject typical of the nineteenth-century literary-cultural movement of Romanticism.
25. K. Ilaiah, 'Andhra Pradesh's Anti-Liquor Movement', Economic and Political Weekly, XXVII: 43 (1992), p. 2408.
26. There are interesting parallels with the anti-Mandal agitation, which many intellectuals acclaimed as a manifestation of nationalism, at the same time warning against any attempt to 'politicise' it.
27. "The tears of thousands of families are pushing them into the struggle', says the actress Sharada (Eenadu 5 Oct., 1992).
28. See, for instance, civil liberties activist K. Balagopal's 'Slaying of a Spirituous Demon', Economic and Political Weekly, XXVIL46 (1992), 2457-61.
29. The phrase is from the AP Civil Liberties Committee's press statement, issued by K.G. Kannabiran and K. Balagopal (Eenadu, 18 Sept., 1992).
30. We were part of a team sent to Nellore by Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies, Hyderabad. Our account of the movement draws heavily on the Anveshi report of the visit.
31. Chaduvu Velugu and Akshara Deepam, literacy primers. We are grateful to TSS Lakshmi and K. Sajaya for providing translations of the lessons.
32. A popular anti-Mandal refrain was that educational opportunities for lower caste people would wean them away from their traditional occupations, turn them into clerks, and thereby destroy the handicrafts and textiles which symbolised Indian culture.
33. We take this phrase from Kumkum Sangari's well-known article, 'The Politics of the Possible', reprinted in Tejaswini Niranjana, P. Sudhir and Vivek Dhareswar (eds.). Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India (Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1993).