Bibliography of published scientific and grey literature related to alcohol policy in India

This dataset contains bibliography of published scientific and grey literature of relevance to study alcohol-related public policy in India over time. It has a total of 116 documents published over 1982-2023 period providing commentary about alcohol-related policy/issues starting from the ancient India till early 21^stcentury period.This bibliography was produced as part of a scoping review to map alcohol-related public policies in India since its industrial scale production in India. Documents were sourced through systematic searches using keywords related to alcohol and policy in the two major social science databases: the EBSCO Host, and JSTOR. This scoping review was part of a broader research initiative titled, DRITHI (Developing Research and Action Capacities to Counter Harm Industries) - a historical comparative public policy study across the four psychoactive substances (tobacco, alcohol, cannabis and opium).The search for literature was limited to time period of 1600-2024 and to English language. The search for EBSCO Host: [Alcohol OR beer OR wine OR rum OR whiskey OR liquor OR liqueur OR spirit OR vodka] AND [policy OR law OR statut* OR legislation OR regulation OR notification OR prohibit* OR excise OR revenue OR tax OR restrict* OR licens*] AND [India]. The search for JSTOR: [ti:"Alcohol OR beer OR wine OR rum OR whiskey OR liquor OR liqueur OR spirit OR vodka"] AND [policy OR control OR law OR regulation OR prohibit OR license OR tax OR revenue] AND [India]. AK and RT independently reviewed titles and abstracts of all sourced documents for their inclusion/exclusion in the review. They developed consensus on inclusion/exclusion decision and the documents, where consensus could not be achieved, were referred to UB for the final decision.Our sole intention of publishing this bibliography is that it may be of help to other researchers/actors interested in alcohol related policy/issues in India.