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Cultural nationalism and social reform: The 1904 Temperance Movement in Sri Lanka

From April through November 1904 hundreds of temperance societies sprang up across Sri Lanka. Although both Buddhist and Christian propagandists had long deplored drunkenness, this widespread commitment to sobriety was unprecedented. As a social movement, too, the upsurge represented something new. At no point during the nineteenth century had Sri Lankans from different parts of the country and different walks of life