USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law, more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Detailed explanation-2: -Prohibition refers to a period in American history when the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages was made illegal.

Detailed explanation-3: -the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Detailed explanation-4: -National prohibition of alcohol (1920–33)-the “noble experiment”-was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America.

Detailed explanation-5: -India has a long history of banning alcohol, with prohibition a part of the Directive Principles of State Policy in the Constitution and also among the key Gandhian principles.