ABSTRACT The history of the British Empire in India is one awash with alcohol. Drinking was a common practice throughout colonial society, acting as social necessity and source of a public anxiety. However, rather than only acknowledging what and why individuals in colonial India drank, it is of equal importance to consider where they did so. Despite its ubiquity, alcohol consumption in India was responsive to the dynamics of space and place, and both the habits of drinkers and the social, military or governmental response to their actions altered greatly depending on locations individuals were able to access, and in which they consumed alcohol. This article draws focus on the spatiality of colonial drinking through an examination of key environs that characterise the British experience of India, and in which colonial Britons drank regularly. Examining published sources alongside archival material, the article argues that drinking in colonial India is rendered simultaneously private and public, personal and socially performative, as a result of the hybrid spaces in which individuals access alcohol. The culture of drinking in colonial context, and the manner through which the drinker is constantly under scrutiny makes the act of drinking as much to do with social performance as it is to do with personal taste, with space in each instance a governing influence on choice of beverage, intent, behaviour, and the perceived identity of the drinker themselves.

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不节制的空间和英国统治 1860-1920

摘要 大英帝国在印度的历史是一部充满酒精的历史。饮酒是整个殖民社会的普遍做法，是社会必需品和公众焦虑的根源。然而，与其只承认殖民地印度的人喝什么和为什么喝，还应考虑他们在哪里喝酒同样重要。尽管它无处不在，但印度的酒精消费对空间和地方的动态做出了反应，饮酒者的习惯以及社会、军队或政府对其行为的反应都发生了很大的变化，这取决于个人能够进入的地点，以及他们所处的位置饮酒。本文通过对英国在印度经历的关键环境以及殖民地英国人经常饮酒的关键环境的考察，重点关注殖民地饮酒的空间性。通过检查已发表的资料和档案材料，文章认为，由于个人获取酒精的混合空间，在殖民地印度饮酒同时呈现私人和公共、个人和社会表演。殖民背景下的饮酒文化，以及饮酒者不断受到审查的方式，使得饮酒行为与社会表现和个人品味的关系一样多，在每种情况下，空间都对选择产生支配性影响饮料、意图、行为以及饮酒者自身的感知身份。由于个人获得酒精的混合空间。殖民背景下的饮酒文化，以及饮酒者不断受到审查的方式，使得饮酒行为与社会表现和个人品味的关系一样多，在每种情况下，空间都对选择产生支配性影响饮料、意图、行为以及饮酒者自身的感知身份。由于个人获得酒精的混合空间。殖民背景下的饮酒文化，以及饮酒者不断受到审查的方式，使得饮酒行为与社会绩效和个人品味的关系一样多，空间在每种情况下都对选择产生支配性影响饮料、意图、行为以及饮酒者自身的感知身份。