Akbar on Europeans and Alcohol
"[The Emperor] Akbar published a decree permitting intoxicating spirits to be sold to Europeans, because, he said, 'they are born in the element of wine, as fish are produced in that of water, and to prohibit them the use of it is to deprive them of life.'"
Source: Philip Anderson: The English in Western India (1856)
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